wireless

Etymology

wire + -less

adj

1. Not having any wires.
2. Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves.

noun

1. (uncountable) The medium of radio communication.
   Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.
   It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]” 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
2. (uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.
   If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.
3. (dated, chiefly Britain) A radio set.
   Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.
   I heard you on my wireless back in '52 1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”

verb

1. To send a message by wireless (by radio)
   At 3:30 A.M. a huge Zeppelin flew across the British battle line, wirelessing down to any Germans still to the westward the best way to get home. 1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet
   Just outside Piraeus we circled low over a capsized fishing-boat, a grisly wreck in the crystal blue water, and wirelessed a description of it to the mainland. 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 1