Wire (disambiguation)

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A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing.

Wire or wires may also refer to:

Abbreviations

• Wire, a covert listening device worn as a wire under a person's clothes
• Wire, an informal term for a telegraph
• Wire, an informal term for a cablegram
• Wire service, a journalism-jargon term for news agency (a newswire or wire service)
• Wire tap, police jargon for covert telephone-listening device
• Wire transfer, a method of sending money directly between banks

Types of wire

• Barbed wire, steel fencing wire
• Chicken wire, a mesh of wire
• Concertina wire, a type of barbed wire or razor wire
• Copper-clad aluminium wire, inner aluminium core and outer copper cladding
• Electrical wiring, electrical installation of cabling and associated devices
• Electroluminescent wire, thin copper wire coated in a phosphor
• Glass-coated wire, fine glass-coated metal filaments
• Magnet wire, copper or aluminium wire coated with a very thin layer of insulation
• Nanowire, 1-D structures used in nanoelectronics and nanowire battery anodes
• Razor wire
• Wire rope, twisted strands of metal wire
• Wire recording, audio storage on a thin steel wire

People

• Wíres (footballer) (born 1982), Brazilian football player
• Coy Wire (born 1978), American footballer, television anchor, and correspondent
• Edith Wire (1899–1973), American composer, pianist, and writer; Lester's sister
• Lester Wire (1887–1958), inventor, Edith's brother
• Nicky Wire (born 1969), musician with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers
• Kurt Wires (1919–1992), sprint canoer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing and telecommunications

• Wire (software), an instant messaging application that supports voice and video calling
• Wide-coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System (WIRES), a digital transmission mode used in Yaesu amateur radio equipment
• Wire data, data on the wire in a communications system or protocol
• Wire protocol, a method of transmitting data
• Wire Swiss, a software company headquartered in Switzerland that is best known for its messaging application of the same name

Organizations

• NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES), an animal welfare organisation in New South Wales, Australia
• The WIRE project, a charitable organisation in England

Other uses

• Warrington Wolves, a British rugby league team nicknamed The Wire
• Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE), a spacecraft intended to produce an infrared survey of the entire sky
• Winged Reusable Sounding rocket (WIRES), by Japan
• Wire Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• Wire of Death or "the Wire", a lethal electric fence on the Dutch-Belgian border during World War I
• "The wire", an elaborate obsolete con used in the film The Sting

See also

• Wired (disambiguation)
• Barb wire (disambiguation)
• Barbed Wire (disambiguation)
• Endless Wire (disambiguation)
• Guide wire (disambiguation)
• High Wire (disambiguation)
• Wyre (disambiguation)

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