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hard-wired \hard"-wired"\, hard wired \hard"
wired"\(h[aum]rd"w[imac]rd"), a.
1. (Computers) 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]

2. 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]

3. (Metaph.) 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. --Andrew Delbanco (New York Times
Magazine, May 7, 2000; p. 46).
[PJC]