Miswire

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To wire incorrectly. transitive

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From mis- + wire.

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