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Adjective: wireless  wI(-u)r-lus [N. Amer], wI-u(r)-lus [Brit]
  1. Having no wires
    "a wireless security system"
Noun: wireless  wI(-u)r-lus [N. Amer], wI-u(r)-lus [Brit]
  1. Medium for communication
    - radio, radiocommunication
     
  2. Transmission by radio waves
     
  3. An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals
    - radio receiver, receiving set, radio set, radio, tuner
     
  4. A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves
    - radio

Derived forms: wirelesses

Type of: broadcasting, communication system, receiver, receiving system, telecom, telecommunication

Antonym: wired

Part of: radio-gramophone, radio-phonograph

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