wirewrap

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A form of wire wrap — A method for constructing circuit boards with turns of wire, without having to make a printed circuit board, now mainly used to assemble prototypes that can then be modified by hand.

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Meanings

nounwirewrap (countable and uncountable, plural wirewraps)

plural wirewraps

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of wire wrap.

    The five processor boards each contain around 80 packages and 2,000 wirewraps.

    1983, Allen N. Smith, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, volume 52, page 562
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