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Wi-Fi

[ wahy-fahy ]

/ ˈwaɪˌfaɪ /

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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seclusion

a false belief or opinion.

the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.

the state of being isolated, kept apart, or withdrawn into solitude.

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Origin of Wi-Fi

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

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Example sentences from the Web for Wi-Fi

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|DAILY BEAST
Kristen Everman: Well it looks like my parents have “forgotten” the wifi password.
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If not, we'll be tweeting and live-blogging (wifi permitting) on this historic day.
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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|DAILY BEAST

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|DAILY BEAST
The overlapping rings of WiFi false-colored over the map were nearly total.
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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.
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British Dictionary definitions for Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

/ (ˈwaɪˌfaɪ) /

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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