Near Field Communication

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noun

a short-range wireless communication system that uses radio waves to enable a phone or other mobile device to interact with another device or card reader: Near Field Communication essentially lets your phone replace your credit cards.Abbreviation: NFC

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Origin of Near Field Communication

First recorded in 2000–05

Words nearby Near Field Communication

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How to use Near Field Communication in a sentence

The system works using Near Field Communication, or NFC, a short-range, contactless way of communicating between devices through radio waves.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
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There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
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