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wireless

/wahyuhr-lis/US // ˈwaɪər lɪs //UK // (ˈwaɪəlɪs) //

无线,无线的,无线网络,无线电

Related Words

mobile手机,移动,流动,移动式cellular蜂窝式,蜂窝状,蜂窝式的,蜂窝型radio广播,无线电,广播电台,无线电台

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having no wire.
    • : noting or pertaining to any of various devices that are operated with or actuated by electromagnetic waves.
    • : Chiefly British. radio.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : wireless telegraphy or telephony.
    • : a wireless telegraph or telephone, or the like.
    • : any system or device, as a cell phone, for transmitting messages or signals by electromagnetic waves.
    • : a wireless message.
    • : Chiefly British. radio.
  1. 1
    • : to telegraph or telephone by wireless.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.communicating without material contact
Forms: wirelesses
Synonyms
cellular蜂窝式,蜂窝状,蜂窝式的,蜂窝型mobile手机,移动,流动,移动式radio广播,无线电,广播电台,无线电台

Examples

  • Hueso said 117,000 residents in the 40th District are eligible for California Lifeline, a free internet program run by wireless carrier TruConnect, but haven’t signed up.

  • What the G-Strider did get right was its “next generation telematics system, with interactive communications over a bidirectional wireless infrastructure…all controlled via glove-friendly trackball.”

  • Earlier this year, T-Mobile kicked off a free wireless service for first responders and began offering a low-cost consumer plan, called T-Mobile Connect, for just $15 a month.

  • Apple plans to launch four new models in October with fifth-generation wireless speeds, a different design and a wider choice of screen sizes, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing unannounced products.

  • These processed spike data are then sent out to smartphones or other external devices through Bluetooth to enable wireless monitoring.

  • The Wireless Joey will help you watch more shows on more screens.

  • And new innovations continue to make wireless, on-demand viewing the new way our families consume TV.

  • Speaking of Grandma, The Wireless Joey is so simple she can install it herself.

  • It is cutting-edge products like these that are helping define this new age of wireless entertainment.

  • Wireless was cheaper than wired communications, and cell phones were proliferating.

  • “She just thought of that wireless thing so as 116 to make the rest of us look cheap,” Belle was heard to say to her friends.

  • That folding wireless staff you use on the Marigold is repeated right on the top of that tower.

  • For a moment Dick was strongly tempted to tell his companion about the wireless he had received.

  • He was in a fever to know why this very respectable firm of lawyers should have sent a wireless to him.

  • The fact that you are here tells me that the wireless you got on the ship was not only bona fide but important.

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