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wirelessly

wirelessly

9 3.7
In a way that does not use cables, for example by radio signals
  • adverb
  • /ˈwaɪərləsli/
: inalámbricamente
  • Tourists will be able to send snapshots or videos wirelessly to loved ones directly from the scene.
  • wirelessly connected
  • wirelessly transmits
  • wirelessly communicate

It streams it wirelessly over the air, much like a radio.

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Examples

  • I originally bought the netbook so I could wirelessly stream to my various TVs, as I needed to.

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  • The speaker box communicates wirelessly with my cell phone.

  • So what this drive is all about is sharing your data wirelessly with your mobile device.

  • Only this one can wirelessly send a video feed to us from inside the lab.

  • And everything gets wirelessly transmitted back to my computer.

  • This speaker box communicates wirelessly with my cell phone.

  • 50 billion machine-to-machine devices communicating with each other wirelessly.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Finally, the chaperone robots will wirelessly report back to humans.

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  • The sensors measure the pressure in each tire and transmit the data wirelessly to a central receiver in the vehicle, which analyzes the information and displays it to the driver.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Now nearby laptops, game machines, and even other smartphones can get online wirelessly through it.

Surface Forms

wirelessly positive

Morphology

wirelessly = wireless (transparent) = wire + less + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the clearly compositional adjective 'wireless', yielding 'in a way without wires'.

Etymology

The word wirelessly comes from wire, a thin metal line for electricity or data, and the ending -less, which means 'without', as in careless. So to do something wirelessly is to do it 'without wires', usually by using invisible signals through the air, which is why you can print or listen to music without cables.