HARD-WIRED Definition & Meaning

hard-wired

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[ hahrd-wahyuhrd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Computers.
1. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed.
2. (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.

hard-wired

adjective

(of a circuit or instruction) permanently wired into a computer, replacing separate software
(of human behaviour) innate; not learned
humans have a hard-wired ability for acquiring language

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of hard-wired¹

First recorded in 1970–75

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“All of that is hard-wired into federal funding,” Scheppele said.

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"I now understand that my conditions were like a reflex or an allergy, my response was hard-wired and no conscious choice was involved," he told the BBC.

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But after a decade in a trio, the instinct to compromise was hard-wired.

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They adapt immediately and robustly, suggesting for the first time that bats' brains are hard-wired with an ability to launch a Plan B in times of diminished hearing.

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This means the adaptation behaviors the bats employed weren't learned; they were innate, latent and hard-wired into the bats' brain circuitry.

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