English Dictionary: wireless fidelity | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wareless \Ware"less\, a. [See {Ware}, n.] Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware. [Obs.] And wareless of the evil That by themselves unto themselves is wrought. --Spenser. | |
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Warlike \War"like`\, a. 1. Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. --Shak. 2. Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. --Milton. Syn: Martial; hostile; soldierly. See {Martial}. | |
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Warlikeness \War"like`ness\, n. Quality of being warlike. | |
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Warlock \War"lock\, a. Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish. [R.] Thou shalt win the warlock fight. --J. R. Drak[?]. | |
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Warlock \War"lock\, n. [OE. warloghe a deceiver, a name or the Devil, AS. w[?]rloga a belier or breaker of his agreement, word, or pledge; w[?]r covenant, troth (aki[?] to L. verus true; see {Very}) + loga a liar (in comp.), le[a2]gan to lie. See 3d {Lie}.] A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp. [Written also {warluck}.] --Dryden. It was Eyvind Kallda's crew Of warlocks blue, With their caps of darkness hooded! --Longfellow. | |
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Warlockry \War"lock*ry\, n. Impishness; magic. | |
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Warlock \War"lock\, n. [OE. warloghe a deceiver, a name or the Devil, AS. w[?]rloga a belier or breaker of his agreement, word, or pledge; w[?]r covenant, troth (aki[?] to L. verus true; see {Very}) + loga a liar (in comp.), le[a2]gan to lie. See 3d {Lie}.] A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp. [Written also {warluck}.] --Dryden. It was Eyvind Kallda's crew Of warlocks blue, With their caps of darkness hooded! --Longfellow. | |
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Weariless \Wea"ri*less\, a. Incapable of being wearied. | |
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Whirlicote \Whirl"i*cote\, n. An open car or chariot. [Obs.] Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots, or whirlicotes. --Stow. | |
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Whirligig \Whirl"i*gig\, n. [Whirl + gig.] 1. A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. --Johnson. 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. --G. W. Cable. 3. A medi[91]val instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity. 4. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to {Gyrinus} and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also {weaver}, {whirlwig}, and {whirlwig beetle}. | |
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Whirligig \Whirl"i*gig\, n. [Whirl + gig.] 1. A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. --Johnson. 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. --G. W. Cable. 3. A medi[91]val instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity. 4. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to {Gyrinus} and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also {weaver}, {whirlwig}, and {whirlwig beetle}. | |
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Whirlwig \Whirl"wig`\, n. [Cf. {Earwig}.] (Zo[94]l.) A whirligig. | |
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Whirligig \Whirl"i*gig\, n. [Whirl + gig.] 1. A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. --Johnson. 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. --G. W. Cable. 3. A medi[91]val instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity. 4. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to {Gyrinus} and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also {weaver}, {whirlwig}, and {whirlwig beetle}. | |
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Whirlwig \Whirl"wig`\, n. [Cf. {Earwig}.] (Zo[94]l.) A whirligig. | |
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Whirligig \Whirl"i*gig\, n. [Whirl + gig.] 1. A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. --Johnson. 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. --G. W. Cable. 3. A medi[91]val instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity. 4. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to {Gyrinus} and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also {weaver}, {whirlwig}, and {whirlwig beetle}. | |
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Wireless \Wire"less\, n. Short for {Wireless telegraphy}, {Wireless telephony}, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless. | |
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Wireless \Wire"less\, a. Having no wire; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, a method of telegraphy, telephony, etc., in which the messages, etc., are transmitted through space by electric waves; as, a wireless message. {Wireless} {telegraphy [or] telegraph} (Elec.), any system of telegraphy employing no connecting wire or wires between the transmitting and receiving stations. Note: Although more or less successful researchers were made on the subject by Joseph Henry, Hertz, Oliver Lodge, and others, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves being launched into space through a lofty antenna. The receiving apparatus consisted of another antenna in circuit with a coherer and small battery for operating through a relay the ordinary telegraphic receiver. This apparatus contains the essential features of all the systems now in use. {Wireless telephone}, an apparatus or contrivance for wireless telephony. {Wireless telephony}, telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver. | |
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Wireless \Wire"less\, a. Having no wire; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, a method of telegraphy, telephony, etc., in which the messages, etc., are transmitted through space by electric waves; as, a wireless message. {Wireless} {telegraphy [or] telegraph} (Elec.), any system of telegraphy employing no connecting wire or wires between the transmitting and receiving stations. Note: Although more or less successful researchers were made on the subject by Joseph Henry, Hertz, Oliver Lodge, and others, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves being launched into space through a lofty antenna. The receiving apparatus consisted of another antenna in circuit with a coherer and small battery for operating through a relay the ordinary telegraphic receiver. This apparatus contains the essential features of all the systems now in use. {Wireless telephone}, an apparatus or contrivance for wireless telephony. {Wireless telephony}, telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver. | |
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Wireless \Wire"less\, a. Having no wire; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, a method of telegraphy, telephony, etc., in which the messages, etc., are transmitted through space by electric waves; as, a wireless message. {Wireless} {telegraphy [or] telegraph} (Elec.), any system of telegraphy employing no connecting wire or wires between the transmitting and receiving stations. Note: Although more or less successful researchers were made on the subject by Joseph Henry, Hertz, Oliver Lodge, and others, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves being launched into space through a lofty antenna. The receiving apparatus consisted of another antenna in circuit with a coherer and small battery for operating through a relay the ordinary telegraphic receiver. This apparatus contains the essential features of all the systems now in use. {Wireless telephone}, an apparatus or contrivance for wireless telephony. {Wireless telephony}, telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
wireless 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 assistant}s, and electronic newspapers. They include the transmission of voice, video, {image}s, 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) | |
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Wireless Application Protocol for applications that use {wireless} communication, e.g. {Internet} access from a mobile phone. The official body developing WAP is the {WAP Forum}. {Home (http://www.wapforum.org/)}. {Technical data (http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm)}. [More detailed summary?] (2000-02-10) | |
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wireless bitmap {WAP} mobile phone. Currently (2001) the only type of WBMP file defined is a simple black-and-white {image} file with one {bit} per {pixel} and no {compression}. [{WAP Forum (http://www.wapforum.org/)}, "WAP-190-WAE-Spec" or "Wireless Application Protocol, Wireless Application Environment Specification"]. (2001-05-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
wireless local area network "WiLAN" /wi-lan/) A communication system that transmits and receives data using modulated electromagnetic waves, implemented as an extension to, or as an alternative for, a {wired} {LAN}. WLANs are typically found within a small {client} {node}-dense locale (e.g. a campus or office building), or anywhere a traditional network cannot be deployed for logistical reasons. Benefits include user mobility in the coverage area, speed and simplicity of physical setup, and {scalability}. Being a military spin-off, WLANs also provide security features such as {encryption}, {frequency hopping}, and {firewalls}. Some of these are intrinsic to the {protocol}, making WLANs at least as secure as wired networks, and usually more so. The drawbacks are high initial cost (mostly {hardware}), limited range, possibility of mutual interference, amd the need to security-enable clients. The established protocols are covered by {IEEE 802.11 (http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/)}. Recent developments include the {Bluetooth} project and other WPAN, or {Personal Area Network} initiatives, accessible through {IEEE 802.15 working group (http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/)}. {Wireless Lan Association (http://www.wlana.org/)}. {Usenet} newsgroups: {news:comp.dcom.lans.misc}, {news:comp.std.wireless}. (2003-09-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Wireless Transport Layer Security security. WTLS is based upon its {TCP/IP} counterpart, {Secure Sockets Layer}. [Reference?] (2003-06-17) |