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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Wireless " is a short story by Rudyard Kipling . It was first published in Scribner’s Magazine in 1902, and was later collected in Traffics and Discoveries . The sister-poem accompanying it, Butterflies or Kaspar's Song in Varda , Kipling claimed to have ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1894, in reference to as a type of telegraph, from wire (n.) + -less . As a noun, "radio broadcasting," attested from 1903, subsequently superseded by radio .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Not having any wires. 2 Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves. n. (label en uncountable) The medium of radio communication. v To send a message by wireless (by radio)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of wireless.
They were the usual wireless fitments, bakelite knobs fitting snugly to the steel shafts that projected from the front panel.
After five rings, I get the familiar automated voice-mail greeting of Cingular Wireless.
Leaning back in his chair he recounted his interview with Mr Dering, then from a file at his elbow he took out a copy of the wireless message he had dispatched to Mr Rosenkraun.
Kipling Period, beastly Fuzzy-Wuzzies far as eye could see, dracunculiasis and Oriental sore rampant among the troops, no beer for a month, wireless being jammed by other Powers who would be masters of these horrid blacks, God knows why, and all folklore broken down, no Gary Grant larking in and out slipping elephant medicine in the punchbowls out here .
At RAF Moyles Court, however, on that mellow late daylight hour, the wireless set in the mess and the second set in the stand-by room issued their sound to little but tables and chairs.
Wireless messages flashed the story from Algiers to Cartagena, and it was thence disseminated throughout the civilized world by the Wireless stations at Paris, Nauen, Moscow, and Georgetown.
The perfection of wireless telegraphy has caused the Ardois and other signal systems depending upon sight or sound to be discarded in all but exceptional cases.
It occurred to him that by their aid wireless telegraphy might be accomplished.
Each week he expected the news that wireless telegraphy had been established, but the news never came.
To make wireless telegraphy effective over any considerable distance a highly efficient and extremely sensitive receiving device is necessary.
The British Admiralty quickly recognized the value of wireless telegraphy to war vessels.
XVIII THE WIRELESS SERVES THE WORLD Marconi Organized WIRELESS Telegraphy Commercially--The New Wonder at the Service of the World--Marine Disasters Prevented--The Extension of the WIRELESS on Shipboard--Improved Apparatus--The WIRELESS in the World War--The Boy and the WIRELESS.
With an increase in the number of wireless stations and varieties of apparatus came a wide increase in the uses to which wireless telegraphy was applied.
Another interesting application of wireless telegraphy is to the needs of the fire-fighters.
What startling developments of wireless telegraphy lie still in the future we do not know.