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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rewire
verb
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▪ And he approved the rewiring of decision-making and spending authorities.
▪ By 2000, the rest of San Diego should be rewired.
▪ In 1987 a survey concluded that the theatre should shut immediately, to allow structural repairs, rewiring, refitting and restoration.
▪ Like I said, if this guitar were mine I'd rewire it like an ES335.
▪ Supposing you want your house rewired.
▪ The building was rewired in 1973.
▪ They told him that division progress required a complete rewiring of the decision-making process in order to push author-ity down the line.
▪ Today they are being rewired and repainted in a new livery, giving them a handsome appearance which belies their fifty years.
Wiktionary
rewire

vb. 1 To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation. 2 To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic.

WordNet
rewire

v. provide with new wiring; "the university rewired the dormitories when most students brought computers and television sets"

Wikipedia
ReWire (software protocol)

ReWire is a software protocol, jointly developed by Propellerhead and Steinberg, allowing remote control and data transfer among digital audio editing and related software. Originally appearing in the ReBirth software synthesizer in 1998, the protocol has since evolved into an industry standard.

Currently used in Mac OS and Microsoft Windows 32-bit or 64-bit audio applications, ReWire enables the simultaneous transfer of up to 256 audio tracks of arbitrary resolution and 4080 channels of MIDI data. This allows, for example, the output from synthesizer software to be fed directly into a linear editor without the use of intermediate files or analog transfers. There are also provisions to remotely trigger actions, such as starting and stopping recording. The protocol is licensed free of charge to companies only, but comes with a "non-disclosure of source code" license that is incompatible with most free-software licenses.

The ReWire system consists of "Mixers", "Panels", and "Devices". Mixers are the host applications which typically do the sequencing at one end and the final mixdown at the other end. A Device is a dynamic link library that only generates sound; it has no user interface. A Panel is a graphical interface for setting the parameters of one Device. A typical setup would be to use Ableton Live in "Mixer" mode, and use Propellerhead Reason as a synthesizer. In this case Reason would provide Device/Panel pairs to Ableton, which could then send midi commands, sync timing and mix Reason's output into its own effects chains. Many applications support either mode. In fact, an application could (at the discretion of a developer) act as both a Mixer and a Panel at the same time.

Rewire (website)

Rewire (formerly RH Reality Check, long name Reproductive Health Reality Check) is a website focused on reproductive and sexual health from a pro- reproductive rights perspective. The website began as a UN Foundation blog in 2006, and became its own nonprofit organization in January 2012. In 2016, it was renamed "Rewire".

Usage examples of "rewire".

He intended to rewire your new brain without bothering to ask your permission.

Jase by this time was taking a daily handful of pills: myelin enhancers to slow the loss of nerve tissue, neurological boosters to help the brain rewire damaged areas, and secondary medication to treat the side effects of the primary medication.

Graphomania happens when the brain starts to rewire its own verbal faculties.

Australian football, or learn how to renovate and rewire his nonexistent house.

I could have rewired that trailer in the dark by the time he was done describing it.

I said yes to everything he wanted in exchange for more hostages, while at the same time moving Hostage Rescue snipers and assault specialists into position, filling the stairwell with guns and men and working on rewiring the elevators.

Some channels had been dug in the walls ready for rewiring, but not enough.

After all, if Clara was capable of handling the rewiring, praise for rehanging a door was just patronising.

After selling The Grey House, Dorothy had passed on some of the profit to her children, but only after she had done Jackdaws up thoroughly, with rewiring throughout, and when gas had come to the village, she had had this installed.

There were a couple of others who talked about the voices and the cold air, too, and a man who said he kept smelling vanilla the whole time he was rewiring the Arctic Circle, and it made him so nervous he had to stop.

Looks like he got kicked out of university for rewiring phone jacks to get free service.

Jesuits in seventeenth-century Spain, never recognized by Rome nor even by the Society, but persisting with grace and stamina there in California for hundreds of years the place had acquired extensions and outbuildings, got wired and rewired, plumbed and replumbed, until a series of bad investments had forced what was left of the sodality to put it up for rent and disperse to cheaper housing, though they continued to market the world-famous cucumber brandy bearing their name.

The home was in need of repair, replumbing, and rewiring, but the owner never visited the property.

They had done all the restoration work themselves, moving beams and bathrooms, stripping woodwork, rewiring, retiling, resurfacing.

Hank had worked on the gear for the broncs and bulls, rewired the lights, repaired the PA system, found a barrel for the rodeo clown, tied the numbered collars on the team penning cattle and, finally, got into his chaps for the bull riding.