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:
Class can be conducted wherever they are, via a wireless or hard-wired Internet connection.
Crandall Canyon was equipped with redundant, hard-wired phone systems for miners underground to communicate with the surface.
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.