What is "wireless"

Wireless \Wire"less\, n. Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.

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.

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.

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 As a noun, "radio broadcasting," attested from 1903, subsequently superseded by radio.

1. 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

2. To send a message by wireless (by radio)

adj. having no wires; "a wireless security system" [ant: wired]

1. n. 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]

Wireless: Acoustic Sessions is British progressive metal band Threshold's third Direct-to-Fan album, released in 2003. The album contains acoustic remixes of past songs and two songs written before the band got their first recording contract signed. The CD was out of print, but was reissued in 2008, and is available as a download on iTunes and Yahoo! Music.

Wireless refers to the transfer of information signals without using wires. The term may also refer to:

Wireless was a rock band from Canada. The band recorded three albums during their career: '' Wireless, Positively Human, Relatively Sane and No Static.

Wireless communication is the transfer of information or power between two or more points that are not connected by an electrical conductor.

The most common wireless technologies use radio. With radio waves distances can be short, such as a few meters for television or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications. It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable applications, including two-way radios, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wireless networking. Other examples of applications of radio wireless technology include GPS units, garage door openers, wireless computer mice, keyboards and headsets, headphones, radio receivers, satellite television, broadcast television and cordless telephones.

Somewhat less common methods of achieving wireless communications include the use of other electromagnetic wireless technologies, such as light, magnetic, or electric fields or the use of sound.

The term wireless has been used twice in communications history, with slightly different meaning. It was initially used from about 1890 for the first radio transmitting and receiving technology, as in wireless telegraphy, until the new word radio replaced it around 1920. The term was revived in the 1980s and 1990s mainly to distinguish digital devices that communicate without wires, such as the examples listed in the previous paragraph, from those that require wires. This is its primary usage today.

LTE, LTE-Advanced, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth are some of the most common modern wireless technologies.

Wireless is Wireless' first album, released in 1976.

"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 been a translation of an old Swedish poem (from the Swedish of Stagnelius), although this claim is unsubstantiated.