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单词 wireless telephone
释义

wireless telephonen.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪələs ˈtɛlᵻfəʊn/, U.S. /ˌwaɪ(ə)rləs ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wireless adj., telephone n.
Etymology: < wireless adj. + telephone n. Compare slightly later wireless telegraph n.
Telecommunications.
A telephone used for radio-telephony; a telephone for communicating using radio waves rather than wires; = radio-telephone n.; (in later use) = mobile phone n.
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wireless telephone1894
radio-telephone1907
radiophone1919
ship-to-shore1923
RT1941
mobile unit1952
1894 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 8/1 Not only may man be able some day to communicate by wireless telephone with the planets, but [etc.].
1907 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 16 Mar. 2/2 Dr. Lee De Forest of the De Forest Radio Telephone company, inventor of the wireless telephone.
1923 A. Huxley On Margin 49 They adjust their wireless telephone to the right wave-length and listen-in to the fruity contralto at Marconi House, singing ‘The Gleaner's Slumber Song’.
1936 G. B. Shaw Simpleton ii. 51 (stage direct.) A writing table littered with papers and furnished with a wireless telephone.
1997 P. Bronson First $20 Million is Hardest 44 Tiny's team had designed several gallium-arsenide chips, which are used in digital wireless telephones.
2001 N.Y. Times 21 June w1/2 Demand for wireless telephones and communicators, which seemed insatiable just six months ago, has lately declined sharply enough to rock even the industry leader.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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