wireless

adj. having no wire; relating to radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony; pertaining to radio

n. something without wires; radio

v. use wireless communications, telegraph

The term wireless is normally used to refer to any type of electrical or electronic operation which is accomplished without the use of a "hard wired" connection. Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short (a few meters as in television remote control) or very long (thousands or even millions of kilometers for radio communications). When the context is clear the term is often simply shortened to "wireless". Wireless communications is generally considered to be a branch of telecommunications.
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Noun
1. medium for communication
(synonym) radio, radiocommunication
(hypernym) broadcasting
(class) raise
2. transmission by radio waves
(hypernym) telecommunication, telecom
(hyponym) radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraphy
3. an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals
(synonym) radio receiver, receiving set, radio set, radio, tuner
(hypernym) receiver, receiving system
(hyponym) clock radio
(part-holonym) radio
(part-meronym) amplifier
4. a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves
(synonym) radio
(hypernym) communication system
(hyponym) radiotelegraph, radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy
(part-meronym) radio receiver, receiving set, radio set, radio, tuner
Adjective
1. having no wires; "a wireless security system"
(antonym) wired

Portable AIRTIME Local Multipoint Distribution System 

<networking> 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.
(1995-02-27)

Synonyms and related words:
Teletype, Wirephoto, audio-frequency, beam, broadcast, cabinet, chassis, communication, communicational, communications, console, electronics, facsimile, headphone, headset, heterodyne, high-frequency, housing, line radio, magnetotelephonic, microtelephonic, monotelephonic, newscast, phototelegraphic, radiate, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, radiobroadcast, radiophone, radiophotography, radiotelegraphic, radiotelegraphy, radiotelephone, radiotelephony, receiver, receiving set, send, set, shortwave, sign off, sign on, signal, sportscast, superheterodyne, telecommunication, telecommunicational, telegraphic, telephonic, telephotographic, television, thermotelephonic, transmit, wire wave communication, wired radio, wired wireless, wireless set, wireless telegraphy, wireless telephone, wireless telephony