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hard-wired
[ hahrd-wahyuhrd ]
adjective
- 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.
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
Word History and Origins
Origin of hard-wired1
Example Sentences
We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
After all, our bodies are hard wired to recognize the difference between “me” and “not me.”
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.
And of course there is the gene, that hard-wired Calvinist gateway to gloomy fate.
Indeed, successful action was seen as a result of logic, hard-wired as part of the biological endowment.
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