hard wired
Speech parts
1. hard wired - Adjective
2. hard wired - Verb
Meaning
hard wired (comparative more hard wired, superlative most hard wired)
Alternative spelling of hardwired
hard-wired (comparative more hard-wired, superlative most hard-wired)
Alternative spelling of hardwired
hard-wired
simple past and past participle of hard-wire
Alternative names
hard-wired
Synonyms
Examples
Even late in the design process, microcode could easily be changed, whereas hard-wired CPU designs were very cumbersome to change.
Genetically hard-wired to swim downstream into the ocean, they spend time feeding and - if they have survived - return to the same catchment to spawn.
Habituated from years of flipping hard-wired switches, many users (or their children) will instinctively use the wall switch to turn the lights out when they leave a room.
For example, a radio controlled overhead crane may have a large multi-circuit rotary switch to transfer hard-wired control signals from the local manual controls in the cab to the outputs of the remote control receiver.
Neurons of the oSDN show aromatase expression which is also smaller in male-oriented rams versus female-oriented rams, suggesting that sexual orientation is neurologically hard-wired and may be influenced by hormones.
In 1968 GM Hydra-Matic (the automatic transmission division of General Motors ) issued a request for proposals for an electronic replacement for hard-wired relay systems based on a white paper written by engineer Edward R. Clark.