multiwires

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

multi- +‎ wires

Noun[edit]

multiwires pl (plural only)

  1. Multiple wires.
    • 1989, Melvin Month, Margaret Dienes, Physics of Particle Accelerators: Fermilab Summer School:
      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.