hard-wired
or hard·wired
[hahrd-wahyuh rd]
- Computers.
- built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed.
- (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- (of electrical or electronic components) connected by hardwiring.
- pertaining to or being an intrinsic and relatively unmodifiable behavior pattern: Every cricket has a hard-wired pattern of chirps.
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Origin of hard-wired
First recorded in 1970–75
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Contemporary Examples
We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
Democrats are never going to win back the white working class; at this point the cultural politics are just too hard-wired.
Hard-wired into the psyche of many is the idea that somehow time off is akin to sloth.
Obama’s Extravagant Summer Break? More Like, America’s Vacation-Deficit DisorderClive Irving
August 10, 2014
And of course there is the gene, that hard-wired Calvinist gateway to gloomy fate.
Perhaps compose a fiction about hard-wired fictionalizing, a fiction that reminds readers of their synaptic deceptions.
Historical Examples
Indeed, successful action was seen as a result of logic, hard-wired as part of the biological endowment.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
hard-wired
- (of a circuit or instruction) permanently wired into a computer, replacing separate software
- (of human behaviour) innate; not learnedhumans have a hard-wired ability for acquiring language
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Word Origin and History for hard-wired
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