Wi-Fi
[wahy-fahy]
- a brand name certifying that a device or other product is compatible with a set of broadband wireless networking standards.
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Contemporary Examples of wifi
With, say, Chinese and Indian youths in villages with wifi now paying micro-cents to listen, new markets are admittedly emerging.
Kristen Everman: Well it looks like my parents have “forgotten” the wifi password.
If not, we'll be tweeting and live-blogging (wifi permitting) on this historic day.
Preorders will begin on Friday, Oct. 26, and WiFi versions will begin to ship on Nov. 2.
The Kindle Fire has no camera or microphone, and can only work on WiFi, as it lacks support for 3G networking.
Historical Examples of wifi
The overlapping rings of WiFi false-colored over the map were nearly total.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownCory 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 BrotherCory Doctorow
Wi-Fi
- computing a system of accessing the internet from remote machines such as laptop computers that have wireless connections
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Word Origin for Wi-Fi
C20: from wi (reless) fi (delity)
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Word Origin and History for wifi
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