wireless
/ˈwʌɪəlɪs
/adjective
Using radio, microwaves, etc. (as opposed to wires or cables) to transmit signals: wireless broadband...
- These units may be placed in either homes or businesses to receive and transmit a wireless broadband signal.
- A scaleable, broadband wireless system for providing radio access to a metropolitan area.
- The receiver demodulates the wireless signal and ships it on to the customer's terminal equipment.
noun
1 dated, chiefly British (also wireless set) A radio: listening to the news on the wireless...
- Telephones, television, private cars and wirelesses - all began their steady growth into mass ownership items during this period.
- I have always been fascinated by how things are put together whether it is wirelesses or motor cars.
- His father, he has said, was ‘an endlessly inventive man’ who was never happier than when tinkering with wirelesses, of which there was one in every room in the flat.
2 [mass noun] Broadcasting, computer networking, or other communication using radio signals, microwaves, etc.The second step is to help create the right policy and regulatory environment for broadband, and satellite, and wireless....
- He said nothing new in his suggestion that broadband infrastructures - be it DSL, satellite, cable or wireless - could be run by just a handful of companies.
- Some older buildings are very difficult to pull cable through, and wireless may be able to get everyone connected.