Definitions

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  • adjective Having no fan; having no electronic device that moves air in order to cool something.
  • adjective Having no fans (supporters)

Etymologies

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fan +‎ -less

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Examples

  • There are many web sites on the internet that show how to build Woodgas Stoves, but the vast majority of them don't include a fan to feed the burning fuel the right amount of air, the "fanless" woodgas stoves are also called "passive draft" designs because the draft air to feed combustion is generated just from the convection of hot air rising.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Portwell has taken advantage of such technology to furnish a series of products that can meet multiple requirements such as fanless, wide temperature range or compact systems.

    unknown title 2009

  • I will go "fanless" during the morning and use my fan only the afternoon.

    Statesman - AP Sports 2009

  • Weighing no more than 2.75 pounds, the 0. 78″ thin Booklet 3G features a 10. 1-inch 1280×720 display, the Intel Atom Z530 1. 6GHz processor, a "fanless" chipset design, 1GB of "soldered down" DDR2 memory, a 120GB 1. 8″ hard drive ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Weighing no more than 2.75 pounds, the 0. 78″ thin Booklet 3G features a 10. 1-inch 1280×720 display, the Intel Atom Z530 1. 6GHz processor, a "fanless" chipset design, 1GB of "soldered down" DDR2 memory, a 120GB 1. 8″ hard drive ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Portwell has taken advantage of such technology to furnish a series of products that can meet multiple requirements such as fanless, wide temperature range or compact systems.

    unknown title 2009

  • I've looked at PCI-e X1 video cards and none are fanless, which is what I want)

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • You can make some pretty nice DIY fanless head ends these days to run the UI and display the media.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Have Ripped All My DVD’s to a Video Server 2010

  • One could imagine mating cheap single board fanless computers to USB mass storage arrays and placing them all round your offices, to create a distributed archive, with redundancy.

    Snell-Pym » Ugarit Roadmap 2010

  • Both VIA VIPRO devices are fanless and durable with IP65 compliant LED backlit panels that can withstand temperatures of -200C to 600C.

    April 2010 - Fareastgizmos.com 2010

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