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hardwired

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hard-wired

  [hahrd-wahyuhrd]
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–adjective
1. Computers.
a. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed.
b. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
2. (of electrical or electronic components) connected by hardwiring.
3. pertaining to or being an intrinsic and relatively unmodifiable behavior pattern: Every cricket has a hard-wired pattern of chirps.
Also, hardwired.

Origin:
1970–75
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