miswire

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English

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ wire.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To wire incorrectly.
    • 2005, Kenneth S. Stephens, Juran, Quality, and a Century of Improvement, page 186:
      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.

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