- 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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Etymology
Origin of wiring
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Customers should get their wiring checked by a professional to ensure it is safe before parting with cash, experts say.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The internet as we knew it might have been torn down to the studs by Silicon Valley bigwigs looking to sell the wiring for scrap, but the bones are still good.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Upcoming evaluations will check the wiring harness connections required to integrate payloads.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In my adolescence, I wasn’t very good with new people, and my introversion was partly due to wiring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
A system check from the rover showed I had done the wiring correctly.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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