Wi-Fi

[ wahy-fahy ]

Computers, Trademark.
  1. a brand name certifying that a device or other product is compatible with a set of broadband wireless networking standards.

Origin of Wi-Fi

1
First recorded in 1995–2000; wi(reless)-fi(delity), patterned after hi-fi

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How to use Wi-Fi in a sentence

  • There were four open WiFi nodes visible from the board room and I told it to change between them at random intervals.

    Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
  • It was going to take a couple hours for all the data to squeeze through her neighbor's WiFi network and wing its way to Sweden.

    Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
  • He showed me how many open WiFi networks were visible from his high vantage point -- twenty, thirty of them.

    Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
  • The overlapping rings of WiFi false-colored over the map were nearly total.

British Dictionary definitions for Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

/ (ˈwaɪˌfaɪ) /


noun
  1. computing a system of accessing the internet from remote machines such as laptop computers that have wireless connections

Origin of Wi-Fi

1
C20: from wi (reless) fi (delity)

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