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CIDE DICTIONARY
hard-skinned puffball | hard-surfaced | hard-tack | hard-to-please | hard-visaged | hard-wired | hard-won | hardass | hardback | hardbacked | hardbake

hard-wired

CIDE DICTIONARY

hard-wireda. 
  •  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.  [PJC]
  •  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.  [PJC]
  •  Performed by an inborn pattern of neural circuits; instinctive; not learned; as, many bird songs are hard-wired, but some are learned.  [PJC]
    "People, as the cybernetic metaphor now has it, are “hard wired” to do good in order to enhance their own happiness."  [PJC]

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