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hard-wired, a.|hɑːdˈwaɪəd|
[f. hard a. or adv. + wired ppl. a.]
1. Computing. Employing or containing permanently connected circuits designed to perform a specific, unchangeable, function; (of a function) achieved by such circuits; built into a device in this way.
1969Mechanised Accounting Nov. 54/2 Central to the entire System 21 structure is the microprocessor and its various hard-wired microprograms. 1973Sci. Amer. May 11 (Advt.), It computes in totally algebraic logic and is equipped with immediate-response hardwired functions. 1974Physics Bull. Dec. 568/1 (Advt.), This instrument—our ND 100—is the most powerful hardwired analyzer ever made available commercially. 1981Sci. Amer. Apr. 71a/2 It is a rule of thumb in computer science that an operation can be executed fastest when it is hardwired into the computer rather than specified as part of a program. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 177/1 Handshaking is hardwired through CTS or DTR, or can be carried out in software if required.
2. transf., esp. with reference to the brain and its function.
1971New Scientist 16 Sept. 615/2 These cells are hard-wired and ready for action as soon as the kitten opens its eyes. 1975Sci. Amer. June 87/3 The product of ‘hard-wired’, or fixed, visual pathways originating at the retina and terminating in the cortex. 1977C. Sagan Dragons of Eden ii. 29 The brain is completely hard-wired: specific cognitive functions are localized in particular places in the brain.
Hence [as a back-formation] hard-ˈwire v. trans., to provide with, or make as, a permanent electric connection.
1983Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Nov. 28/2 Data security may be achieved by hardwiring the fixed disk unit into a special power outlet that can be locked in the off position. 1985Computer Equipment Sept. 39/1 This now enables them to hard-wire links from the 56M central file server to all the required terminals in the factory. |