Usually means: Innately programmed, not easily changed.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. hard-wired, hard-wired: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Hard-Wired, hard-wired: Wordnik
  3. hard-wired: Wiktionary
  4. hard-wired: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. hard-wired: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. hard-wired: Dictionary.com
  7. hard-wired: FreeDictionary.org
  8. hard-wired: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. hard-wired: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hard-wired: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. hard-wired: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of hardwired [(electronics) Designed to perform a specific task.]

Similar:
hard wired, hard coded, programable, mechanised, built in, high-tech, hardwearing, in-built, hard-working, hard-line, more...

Opposite:
soft-wired, flexible, adaptable, malleable

Types:
innate, inborn, genetic, hereditary, congenital, more...

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Similar:
hard wired, hard coded, programable, mechanised, built in, high-tech, hardwearing, in-built, hard-working, hard-line, more...

Opposite:
soft-wired, flexible, adaptable, malleable

Types:
innate, inborn, genetic, hereditary, congenital, more...



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