hard-wired

or hard·wired

[ hahrd-wahyuhrd ]

adjective

1. 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.
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.

hard-wired

adjective

1. (of a circuit or instruction) permanently wired into a computer, replacing separate software
2. (of human behaviour) innate; not learned

   humans have a hard-wired ability for acquiring language

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard-wired¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

The OBR’s role in judging the affordability of every single policy, elsewhere in the speech, is now hard-wired.

From BBC

In “The Age of Magical Overthinking,” Amanda Montell observes how information overload and online culture have hijacked our brain’s hard-wired vulnerabilities.

From Los Angeles Times

But this arcane piece of mathematics is hard-wired into UK government spending and removing it from the system would have potentially big implications for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

From BBC

The second attribute that I noticed was a kind of impatience hard-wired into their personalities.

From BBC

More than that, Miller feels “we are hard-wired for story. The underlying elements are all sensed intuitively.”

From Los Angeles Times