单词 | hardwire |
释义 | hardwireadj. Designating a physical connection running between two components of a system, allowing signals to be passed between those components directly as opposed to by radio waves, etc.; involving or relating to such a connection. Cf. hardwire v. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > [adjective] > type of circuit or component simplex1884 hardwire1962 hardwired1965 on-chip1976 1962 Proc. IRE 50 2206/1 An unmanned seismic station consisting of a..seismic instrument capable of continuing unmanned operation and telemetry using either hardwire or radio links has also been built. 1976 Computerworld 12 Apr. 26/1 Brooks installed an IBM 370/115 Model 2.., which is linked through hard-wire connections to an IBM 3657 ticket reader unit. 1981 Science 13 Feb. 687/1 The institute will have a ‘hardwire’ data link to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center at nearby Greenbelt, Maryland. 2007 R. Pearson Electronic Security Syst. viii. 144 A wireless technology eliminates the labor and material needed to provide the same security function with hardwire systems. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hardwirev. 1. a. transitive. To implement (a specific, unchangeable function) in a computer or other electronic device by means of permanently connected circuitry, so that it cannot be altered by software; (more widely) to implement in a manner that prevents subsequent modification or precludes alternatives. Also: to manufacture (a device) so that particular functionality is implemented by such circuitry. ΚΠ 1967 U.S. Patent 3,348,194 9 Input 141 may be the sign function (which may be hard-wired to logic 1 (—) if the slope of the curve being reproduced is known always to be in a progressively negative direction). 1981 Sci. Amer. Apr. 71 a/2 An operation can be executed fastest when it is hardwired into the computer rather than specified as part of a program. 1993 Computing 24 June 26/5 Current hypertext tools can exacerbate such navigational problems because they require authors to ‘hardwire’ links when they produce a document. 2009 Independent 17 Nov. 11/1 Hard-wiring the process into the computer itself, and demanding that users verify that they are actually watching the ads. 2013 GigaOM (Nexis) 2 Aug. Permanently hard wiring those chips with an inflexible set of protocols. b. To connect (electronic components or devices) by means of (permanent) electrical wires or cables.Cf. hardwire adj. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (transitive)] > connect permanently hardwire1985 1985 Computer Equipm. 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. 1990 Network World 13 Aug. 1/2 An attractive alternative to hard-wiring the devices together. 2006 SuperBike June 101/1 A speed-camera-detection device system..that can be hard wired in and mounted in the cockpit. 2. transitive. To establish as a permanent or inherent quality of the brain or nervous system by means of permanent or long-lasting synaptic connections (cf. hardwired adj. 2). More generally: to make (a pattern of behaviour, ability, principle, etc.) standard or instinctive, esp. through learning, conditioning, or repetition. ΚΠ 1979 G. J. Chaitin in R. D. Levine & M. Tribus Maximum Entropy Formalism 481 Nature, like computer designers, has decided that it is much more flexible to build general-purpose computers than to use heredity to ‘hardwire’ each behavior pattern instinctively into a special-purpose computer.] 1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum xv. 110 When you learn these things as a child, they are hard-wired in your nervous system. 1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct xi. 365 Natural selection can take skills that are acquired with effort and uncertainty and hardwire them into the brain. 2010 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 74/2 Part of that memorandum challenged us to hardwire the philosophical principles around transparency, participation and open government into everything we do. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1962v.1967 |
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