- present participle of wire.
wiring
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At the suggestion of the arborist, we had the tree’s main limbs secured by industrial wiring that prevented them from swinging too wildly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Among her tasks: wiring acclaimed authors for sound before they go on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Separate research is exploring other ways to investigate the dimensions of this microscopic wiring.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 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
Next she disconnected the wiring between the electromagnetic shield and the detector, and found the wiring plan in a drawer of the filing cabinet and set light to it.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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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