- present participle of wire.
noun
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the network of wires used in an electrical system, device, or circuit
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the quality or condition of such a network
adjective
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Origin of wiring
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The new 6th Street Bridge, hailed as a civic landmark just steps away, was promptly stripped of its wiring by vandals and now sits pitch black at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
For investors hunting the Tier 1 suppliers of physical AI, the layers Nvidia is wiring up sort into a few buckets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Auto makers are increasingly using aluminum wiring due to copper prices rising over 20% and aluminum over 100% in a year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Ageing cables, lead pipes, wiring and boilers are set to be replaced in the renovation, many for the first time in 60 years, after concern about potential fire and water damage.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The strain has been too much for him and he’s blown his wiring.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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 Clifton, Mark
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