Definition of "wiring" []

• The act of attaching, connecting, or installing electric wires. (noun)
• A system of electric wires. (noun)
• A part of the body's physiology or neurology that determines or controls something, such as a capability or disorder: "Evolution, having made the basic computational units of language innate, may have seen no need to replace every bit of learned information with innate wiring” ( Steven Pinker). (noun)

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• "To deliver SchoolNet and the Community Access Program, we need to make sure the wiring is there."
• "So maybe our hard wiring is why we will never be wine-tasting robots, with pesky things like emotions and context getting in the way."
• ""Lakeview's underground wiring is still affected by salt waters from Katrina," Robinson said."