multiwires

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ wires

Noun

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.