Usually means: Innately or inherently built into system.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardwired: Merriam-Webster
  2. hardwired: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Hardwired, hardwired: Wordnik
  4. hardwired: Wiktionary
  5. hardwired: Dictionary.com
  6. Hardwired (film), Hardwired (novel), Hardwired (song), Hardwired: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardwired: Netlingo
  2. hardwired: CCI Computer
  3. hardwired: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. hardwired: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hardwired)

adjective:  (electronics) Designed to perform a specific task.
adjective:  (electronic communications) Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
adjective:  (computing) Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example.)
adjective:  Not changeable.
adjective:  (humans and animals) Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior a habit.
adjective:  In humans and animals, describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.

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