wiring

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of attaching, connecting, or installing electric wires.
2. n. A system of electric wires.
3. n. 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).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In surgery, the holding in apposition of the ends of a fractured bone by means of wire passed through holes drilled in the bony substance: a method employed most frequently in cases of fractured patella, in which bony union is especially difficult to obtain.
2. n. In taxidermy, the setting or fixing of the skin on a wire framework or the insertion of a wire in any member: as, the wiring of the legs was faulty.

Wiktionary

1. v. present participle of wire.
2. n. A system of electric wires.
3. n. The act of installing wiring.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of one that wires anything.
2. n. The wires or conductors employed in any system in which electric voltages or current are transmitted between components.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the work of installing the wires for an electrical system or device
2. n. a circuit of wires for the distribution of electricity