Wireless

a.	1.	(Elec.) Having no wire; Wireless telegraphy (Elec.) any system of telegraphy employing no connecting wire or wires between the transmitting and receiving stations. 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.
n.	1.	Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.

Noun	1.	wireless - medium for communication Synonyms: radio, radiocommunication
	2.	wireless - transmission by radio waves
	3.	wireless - an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals Synonyms: radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner, radio
	4.	wireless - a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves Synonyms: radio
Adj.	1.	wireless - having no wires; "a wireless security system" Antonyms: wired - equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service; "a well-wired house"

(networking)

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 assistants, and electronic newspapers. They include the transmission of voice, video, images, 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.

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