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Hard wired   Listen
adjective
hard wired, hard-wired  adj.  
1.
(Computers) 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.
2.
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.
3.
(Metaph.) Performed by an inborn pattern of neural circuits; instinctive; not learned; as, many bird songs are hard-wired, but some are learned. "People, as the cybernetic metaphor now has it, are "hard wired" to do good in order to enhance their own happiness."






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