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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.



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"Wireless" Quotes from Famous Books



... sprawling town that stretches a length of about three miles from the extreme north end to the extreme south. Inland about a mile and a half is a wireless station, and on the cliff, 300 feet high, stands the ruined castle and its walled-in grounds, in the midst of which is—or was, for it was yesterday blown clean away—a signal station. Although there ...
— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various
... bathed in welcome light. Pee-wee climbed into the front seat and moved his hand across the array of nickel dials and buttons on the instrument board. There seemed to be a veritable multitude of little handles and indicators for the control of the Hunkajunk super six touring model. Not even a wireless apparatus, with which Pee-wee's scouting experience had made him familiar, had such a variety of shiny ...
— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... train are a sufficient proof that Russians are capable of organization if they set their minds to it. We went through it, wagon by wagon. One wagon contains a wireless telegraphy station capable of receiving news from such distant stations as those of Carnarvon or Lyons. Another is fitted up as a newspaper office, with a mechanical press capable of printing an edition ...
— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome
... of his work with the telephone division and later with the wireless division. Especially he liked his work in the Taunus, the Odenwald and the Eiffel, with its varying, beautiful scenery which pleased the nature-lover in him. Service with the wireless took him to Darmstadt with a battalion from Koblenz, and it was there that ...
— An Aviator's Field Book - Being the field reports of Oswald Boelcke, from August 1, - 1914 to October 28, 1916 • Oswald Boelcke
... a wireless system, keen to perceive, to feel, to know the things hidden to the mass. I look forward to years of torture with the accursed things. The only thing that relieves, and of course it does not cure, is osteopathy, stimulating the nerve where it enters the spine. But never let ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane


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