Usually means: Innately or permanently ingrained; preprogrammed.
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  1. hard-wire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. hard-wire: Wordnik
  3. hard-wire: Wiktionary
  4. hard-wire: Dictionary.com
  5. hard-wire: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hard-wire: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (hard-wire)

verb:  To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
verb:  (computing) To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
verb:  (psychology, by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.

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