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miswire

miswire verb: to wire incorrectly.

Verb

miswire (third-person singular simple present miswires, present participle miswiring, simple past and past participle miswired)

  1. (transitive) To wire incorrectly.
    • Thus, when it happened on one occasion that the card readers were producing gibberish, the managers not only found the cause to be a miswired plug board, they also realized that they had stumbled onto a means for creating messages in cipher.2005, Kenneth S. Stephens, Juran, Quality, and a Century of Improvement, page 186

Forms of miswire

third-person singular presentmiswires
present participlemiswiring
past participlemiswired
pastmiswired

Origin of miswire

From mis- + wire.

Questions about miswire

What does miswire mean?
Miswire means to wire incorrectly.
What part of speech is miswire?
Miswire is a verb.
What is the past tense of miswire?
The past tense of miswire is miswired.

Words near miswire in the dictionary

  1. miswielding
  2. miswields
  3. miswind
  4. miswinding
  5. miswinds
  6. miswire
  7. miswired
  8. miswires
  9. miswiring
  10. miswirings
  11. misword

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