Meanings
nounmultiwires pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlyMultiple 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
From multi- + wires.
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