{
  "id": "wireless.electrical",
  "term": "wireless",
  "sense": "electrical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "wireless",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a process that uses radio to transfer information through air instead of a physical link",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "radio.electrical",
      "air.material",
      "information.knowledge",
      "instead.alternative",
      "links.connection",
      "physical.material",
      "process.general",
      "transferred.exchange",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "radio transfers information through air and does not use a physical link",
    "novel_properties": [
      "contact without wires",
      "intentional signal transmission",
      "selective channel usage"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1901 Marconi transatlantic radio transmission sent the letter 'S' in Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland without wires.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Wi-Fi networks in 2023 urban apartments transmit data between routers and laptops using 2.4 GHz radio waves.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Air traffic control at O'Hare Airport uses VHF radio to guide aircraft through approach patterns without physical connections.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "wireless"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "updated to include all constitutive concepts implied in the definition; interaction and definition were consistent but record was missing key components"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wireless.electrical"
}