access point

noun

: a stand-alone device or computer that allows wireless devices (such as laptop computers) to connect to and communicate with a wired computer network

You have some final steps to go through to set up your access point to communicate properly and securely with the server …

—Jim Aspinwall, Installing, Troubleshooting, and Repairing Wireless Networks, 2003

called also wireless access point

Word History

First Known Use

1993, in the meaning defined above

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