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Wireless   /wˈaɪrlɪs/   Listen
Wireless

noun
1.
Medium for communication.  Synonyms: radio, radiocommunication.
2.
Transmission by radio waves.
3.
An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals.  Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner.
4.
A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves.  Synonym: radio.
adjective
1.
Having no wires.  Antonym: wired.



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"Wireless" Quotes from Famous Books



... had sprung up a curious intimacy. All sorts of little wireless messages flashed between them, and Rose always seemed to know things without being told. She had discovered long ago that he was in love with Eleanor, and, instead of scoffing at him or teasing him, she did him the supreme favor of listening to him. Many a night, after the rest of the family ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... of the strike of the labourers in the Protium Works had come to me from the Listening-in-Service. Since Berlin was too complicated and congested a spot for wireless communication to be practical, the electrical conduct of sound was by antiquated means of metal wires. The workers' Free Speech Halls were all provided with receiving horns by which they made their appeals to His Majesty, of which I shall speak presently. ...
— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings
... led tortuously up to the door. In the rear of the house, rising from an old barn, a thin pole with a cup-like attachment at the apex, thrust its point into the open above the dense, odorous pines. It appeared to be a wireless mast. Miss Thorne passed around the house, and entered ...
— Elusive Isabel • Jacques Futrelle
... that day when we were lost in the forest, and I made my first experimental instrument the next day. It is a wireless telephone; and it is powerful enough, I believe, to permit of intelligible conversation over a space of about fifty miles. But I cannot speak with certainty on that point without subjecting the instrument to actual trial. It is very roughly made, as you see, ...
— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... as being picked up from absent persons, by a kind of wireless telegraphy, for which we have ventured, with the assistance of a couple of Grecian friends, ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various


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