Wireless Definition–adjective
| 2. | noting or pertaining to any of various devices that are operated with or actuated by electromagnetic waves. |
–noun | 4. | wireless telegraphy or telephony. |
| 5. | a wireless telegraph or telephone, or the like. |
| 6. | any system or device, as a cellular phone, for transmitting messages or signals by electromagnetic waves. |
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object) | 9. | to telegraph or telephone by wireless. |
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Technology Definition–noun | 1. | the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science. |
| 2. | the terminology of an art, science, etc.; technical nomenclature. |
| 3. | a technological process, invention, method, or the like. |
| 4. | the sum of the ways in which social groups provide themselves with the material objects of their civilization. |
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