miswire

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ wire

Verb

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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