What is "hookup"

Usage examples of "hookup".

Chow stared at the complicated hookup of microcircuitry, enclosed in blocks of crystal plastic.

At the moment in question, I stood broiling under a sun undimmed by atmosphere, my poor tired flesh encased in a smelly vacsuit with an underpowered cooling unit, as I watched six Taladoran technicians struggle to complete the power hookups for the fixed-beamer battery that was our sole means of defense.

Bill Phillips of the Brushfire Squad was speaking calmly into the radio hookup with his Command Central.

There were television trucks with satellite hookups, a mobile telephone bank, a room full of closed-circuit television monitors for the dozens of reporters.

The handling of the case was a study of the advances in investigative technology that had occurred during those fourteen years, from computer hookups between police departments, to fingerprint matching, to fiber analysis of the carpet in the dormitory room from which the girl was abducted.

Fact: A moratorium on sewer hookups will be costly to powerful builders.

The history of Winston Churchill that Myron is working his way through at night at the hookups sits on the coffee table.

But this was not a controlled environment with monitoring hookups and attendant medics, and she was already seriously undernourished.

I am almost certain that if that $200 million a year were restored to the budget, nearly all of it would go into building more parking lots and RV hookups, not into saving trees and certainly not into restoring the precious, lovely grassy balds.

It isn’t just capsules I want, not just temporary relief, but a complete hookup, total immersion.

Later, when advanced technology and information systems make it possible for much of the work of society to be done at home via computer-telecommunication hookups, communalism will become feasible for larger numbers.

Intestinal infections leading to diarrhoeal illness is Bolivia’s number one disease and child killer, the result of water hookups and sanitation reaching only 31 per cent of rural homes.

The barbie on the upper deck enabled a reasonably bright child to cook half a beeve at a time to perfection, and the deck itself had a built-in cable-and-power hookup in its railing so you could take the portable TV/CD/tapedeck/tuner/VCR out there without stringing unsightly wires from the bedroom.

There's a tricky quarter-wave hookup coupled to an amplification factor that'll throw you back on your heels.

He went up the office hierarchy, telling his tale to increasingly authoritarian men until he had reached the district manager, who told him, unequivocally, that service would be reinstituted only after he paid the charge and that the earliest possible hookup date would be Wednesday.