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hard-wired
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hard-wired
CIDE DICTIONARY
hard-wired, a.
- Contained within the circuitry of a computer or computer peripheral device, and not changeable by programming; -- of functions; as, error correction is hard-wired into the circuit of the disk drive, so it proceeds very rapidly. [PJC]
- Connected by a continuous electrical wire, rather than through a switch; as, the air-conditioner was hard-wired into the wall circuit, so moving it would require an electrician. [PJC]
- Performed by an inborn pattern of neural circuits; instinctive; not learned; as, many bird songs are hard-wired, but some are learned. [PJC]"People, as the cybernetic metaphor now has it, are “hard wired” to do good in order to enhance their own happiness." [PJC]
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