Wireless

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wireless \Wire"less\, a.
     Having no wire; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining
     to, a method of telegraphy, telephony, or other information
     transmisssion, in which the messages, data, etc., are
     transmitted through space by electric waves; as, a wireless
     message; a wireless network; a wireless keyboard.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  
     {Wireless telegraphy} or {Wireless telegraph} (Elec.), any
        system of telegraphy employing no connecting wire or wires
        between the transmitting and receiving stations.
  
     Note: Although more or less successful researchers were made
           on the subject by Joseph Henry, Hertz, Oliver Lodge,
           and others, the first commercially successful system
           was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897.
           Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set
           up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves
           being launched into space through a lofty antenna. The
           receiving apparatus consisted of another antenna in
           circuit with a coherer and small battery for operating
           through a relay the ordinary telegraphic receiver. This
           apparatus contains the essential features of all the
           systems now in use.
  
     {Wireless telephone}, an apparatus or contrivance for
        wireless telephony.
  
     {Wireless telephony}, telephony without wires, usually
        employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an
        oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A
        telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves,
        it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wireless \Wire"less\, n.
     Short for {Wireless telegraphy}, {Wireless telephony}, etc.;
     as, to send a message by wireless.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] wirepuller

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wireless
       adj : having no wires; "a wireless security system" [ant: {wired}]
       n 1: medium for communication [syn: {radio}, {radiocommunication}]
       2: transmission by radio waves
       3: an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and
          amplifies transmitted signals [syn: {radio receiver}, {receiving
          set}, {radio set}, {radio}, {tuner}]
       4: a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic
          waves [syn: {radio}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "wireless":
     Teletype, Wirephoto, audio-frequency, beam, broadcast, cabinet,
     chassis, communication, communicational, communications, console,
     electronics, facsimile, headphone, headset, heterodyne,
     high-frequency, housing, line radio, magnetotelephonic,
     microtelephonic, monotelephonic, newscast, phototelegraphic,
     radiate, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope,
     radiobroadcast, radiophone, radiophotography, radiotelegraphic,
     radiotelegraphy, radiotelephone, radiotelephony, receiver,
     receiving set, send, set, shortwave, sign off, sign on, signal,
     sportscast, superheterodyne, telecommunication,
     telecommunicational, telegraphic, telephonic, telephotographic,
     television, thermotelephonic, transmit, wire wave communication,
     wired radio, wired wireless, wireless set, wireless telegraphy,
     wireless telephone, wireless telephony
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  wireless
       
           A term describing a computer {network} where
          there is no physical connection (either copper cable or {fibre
          optics}) between sender and receiver, but instead they are
          connected by radio.
       
          Applications for wireless networks include multi-party
          {teleconferencing}, distributed work sessions, {personal
          digital assistant}s, and electronic newspapers.  They include
          the transmission of voice, video, {image}s, and data, each
          traffic type with possibly differing {bandwidth} and
          quality-of-service requirements.  The wireless network
          components of a complete source-destination path requires
          consideration of mobility, {hand-off}, and varying
          transmission and {bandwidth} conditions.  The wired/wireless
          network combination provides a severe bandwidth mismatch, as
          well as vastly different error conditions.  The processing
          capability of fixed vs. mobile terminals may be expected to
          differ significantly.  This then leads to such issues to be
          addressed in this environment as {admission control},
          {capacity assignment} and {hand-off} control in the wireless
          domain, flow and error control over the complete end-to-end
          path, dynamic bandwidth control to accommodate bandwidth
          mismatch and/or varying processing capability.
       
          {Usenet} newsgroup {news:comp.std.wireless}.
       
          (1995-02-27)