Meanings
verbmiswire (third-person singular simple present miswires, present participle miswiring, simple past and past participle miswired)
present singular third person miswires · participle present miswiring · participle past miswired · past miswired
- transitiveTo 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
Origin
Translations
Swedish felkoppla
- felkopplato wire incorrectly
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APA
miswire. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miswire
MLA
“miswire.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miswire. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “miswire,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miswire.
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