wireless telegraphy

wireless telegraphy
noun
1. telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire
Hypernyms: ↑wireless
2. the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code)
Hypernyms: ↑radio, ↑wireless

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noun also wireless telegraph

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Now Rare. radiotelegraphy.
[1895-1900]

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wireless telegraphy or wireless telegraph,
a system of telegraphy in which no conducting wire is used between the transmitting and receiving stations, the signals or messages being transmitted through space by means of electromagnetic waves.

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