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  • present participle of wire.
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wiring

[wahyuhr-ing] / ˈwaɪər ɪŋ /
NOUN
the act of installing electric wires
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NOUN
installed wires
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NOUN
circuit system
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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

Meanwhile, up to 20 tonnes is used for the network wiring connecting up those computer servers.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The brain's microscopic wiring may need a different kind of textbook illustration.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 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

“At each ring setting, the wiring inside the rotor changes,” Beryl says.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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




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