Meaning & use

wireless

adjective·Everyday

Operating without a physical wire or cable connection, typically using radio signals.

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She connected her laptop to the wireless network in the coffee shop.

The new headphones are completely wireless and charge in a small case.

A note on using this word

In older British English, wireless was also used as a noun meaning radio, a sense now largely historical.

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