0 automatically thinking or behaving in a particular way:
1 built to work in a particular way that cannot be changed with new software:
This is a hard-wired, tamper-proof substitute for the software in more orthodox systems.
2 physically connected by wires for carrying a signal:
Crandall Canyon was equipped with redundant, hard-wired phone systems for miners underground to communicate with the surface.
Class can be conducted wherever they are, via a wireless or hard-wired Internet connection.
For if our minds are hard-wired to categorize like computers, as they claim, then our nature as embodied neural beings cannot matter to selfunderstanding.
This is in contrast to many existing rewriting-based languages where the term reduction strategy is hard-wired and not accessible to the designer of an application.
This disposition has been interpreted as a "hard-wired" mechanism, in which the emotional experience per se is of subordinate importance.
The communication skeletons considered are standard collective communication primitives (broadcast, translation, etc.) which are either hard-wired or optimized on many parallel machines.
Moreover, producers increasingly lose control of their production decisions, as the management technology is genetically hard-wired in the seed23.
These systems were initially not frameworks but had a hard-wired object language.
This persuades that temporal experiences are cognitively mediated and are hard-wired in the brain.
They were, so to speak, hard-wired in human nature, although their proportionate strengths differed from one individual to the next.