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multiwires

multiwires noun: multiple wires.

Noun

multiwires pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Multiple wires.
    • The multiwires were used to measure the profiles of the injected beam as it passed through the 8-GeV beam-transfer line and passed once through part of the Main Ring.1989, Melvin Month, Margaret Dienes, Physics of Particle Accelerators: Fermilab Summer School

Origin of multiwires

From multi- + wires.

Questions about multiwires

What does multiwires mean?
Multiwires means multiple wires.
What part of speech is multiwires?
Multiwires is a noun.

Words near multiwires in the dictionary

  1. multiwindow
  2. multiwindowed
  3. multiwindowing
  4. multiwindows
  5. multiwire
  6. multiwires
  7. multiword
  8. multiword expression
  9. multiworded
  10. multiworkstation
  11. multiworld

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