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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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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

A company called Bear-ier Solutions recently beefed up her wiring after a bear surprised Ziegler when she returned with balloons in hand on her 91st birthday.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The industry has been using more aluminum in wiring for a while.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

And the ancient electrical wiring was as likely as before to burn the house down.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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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