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hardwired

About 0.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Designed to perform a specific task.
  2. adjective Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
  3. adjective Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example).
  4. adjective Not changeable.
  5. adjective Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior or a habit.
    I'm hardwired to have a shower every morning.
  6. adjective Describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.
  7. verb simple past and past participle of hardwire

Similar words

designed connected conceived plugged hard-wired hard coded hardcoded application-specific hard clocked

Often followed by

to into control in for and logic or with

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