Wi-Fi

[wahy-fahy]

Computers, Trademark.

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

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Examples from the Web for wifi

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.
Van Dyke Parks on How Songwriters Are Getting Screwed in the Digital Age
Van Dyke Parks
June 4, 2014
Kristen Everman: Well it looks like my parents have “forgotten” the wifi password.
A Tale of Thanksgiving Triumph
Michael Daly
November 28, 2013
If not, we'll be tweeting and live-blogging (wifi permitting) on this historic day.
Join Us at the United for Marriage Rally Tomorrow Morning at 8:30 AM
Justin Green
March 26, 2013
Preorders will begin on Friday, Oct. 26, and WiFi versions will begin to ship on Nov. 2.
Apple Rolls Out Thinner, Smaller, iPad Mini
Matthew DeLuca
October 23, 2012
The Kindle Fire has no camera or microphone, and can only work on WiFi, as it lacks support for 3G networking.
Amazon Declares War on Apple
Dan Lyons
September 30, 2011

Historical Examples of wifi

The overlapping rings of WiFi false-colored over the map were nearly total.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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

British Dictionary definitions for wifi

Wi-Fi

noun

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

Word Origin for Wi-Fi

C20: from wi (reless) fi (delity)

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Word Origin and History for wifi

wi-fi

1999, apparentlly from wireless; the second element perhaps suggested by hi-fi.