- present participle of wire.
wiring
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Among her tasks: wiring acclaimed authors for sound before they go on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
"Our findings suggest that cognitive health depends not only on how much gray matter is preserved, but also on the condition of the wiring that connects it."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
An early store cost $950 to open: $740 for a secondhand ice-cream machine, $120 for rent and $90 for electrical wiring and decor, Zhang Hongfu wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
When old wiring recently caused an electrical fire in the alley outside the hospital, a blackout cut power to X-ray, ultrasound and ventilator equipment, she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
She tried the home phone, in case the water had miraculously dropped below the phone box and the wiring was undamaged.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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She then looked at the information she had and she could then deduce how the internal wirings of this machine was built.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
The study also helped to pinpoint major differences between the neural wirings of African savanna elephants and Asian elephants.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
His nuanced understanding of Davis’s playing — its harmonic and rhythmic wirings as well as its smoldering tone — was only part of a vast musical ken.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2020
On a behavioral level, these extraneous wirings cause a mix-up of perceptions, inducing colors for letters and numbers.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2015
The elaborate wirings of the first bulky and crude electronic sets, that gave way to a printed diagram of such wirings on a card to obtain the same result?
From Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton