Abbreviation of Kirschner wire.

A sterilized, sharpened, smooth stainless steel pin, used in orthopaedics and other types of medical and veterinary surgery to hold bone fragments together or to provide an anchor for skeletal traction.

Wire fluted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions.

A method for constructing circuit boards with turns of wire, without having to make a printed circuit board, now mainly used to assemble prototypes that can then be modified by hand.

The thin, wire-like thread of metal sometimes formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening it.

A service provided by a news agency that transmits news reports to subscribers electronically, e.g. by telegraph or the Internet. The subscribers are usually media outlets such as newspapers. Examples include the Associated Press and United Press International.

(journalism) A news item published by a wire service.

plural of wire service

(UK) steel wool

Alternative form of barbed wire