hard-wire (English, verb)
expansion: hard-wire (third-person singular simple present hard-wires, present participle hard-wiring, simple past and past participle hard-wired)
Senses:
glosses: To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: hard-wires
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hard-wiring
tags: participle
present
form: hard-wired
tags: participle
past
form: hard-wired
tags: past