keyless
adjEtymology From key + -less.
1
Lacking or not requiring a key.
- Today’s keyless models use a fob — the small remote control device that most modern cars use to lock and unlock doors — but it performs the additional duty of sending a signal to the ignition.2007 April 14, Micheline Maynard, “Car Keys Could Go the Way of Tail Fins”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- keylessness, remote keyless entry