Wi-Fi
/ˈwʌɪfʌɪ
/noun trademark
A facility allowing computers, smartphones, or other devices to connect to the Internet or communicate with one another wirelessly within a particular area.While Wi-Fi is becoming a standard feature on notebooks, network coverage is anything but ubiquitous....
- Add Wi-Fi, standard now on most new laptops, and your home office can be anywhere.
- It will also deploy a Wi-Fi network to keep assorted hacks and photographers in touch.
Origin
1990s: from wireless + an apparently arbitrary second element, after hi-fi; sometimes incorrectly interpreted as a shortening of Wireless Fidelity.
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- on one's honour
- on one's jack (or Jack Jones)
- on one's knees
- on one's last legs
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