Wiktionary
vb. 1 To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires. 2 (context computing English) To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed. 3 (context psychology by extension English) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.
Usage examples of "hard-wire".
Unaccustomed foods that could leach nutrients out of you instead of putting them in, or chemically bind what you needed… he could think of a dozen absolutely plausible excuses for calculatedly self-destructive behavior, half of them dietary and the other half because, dammit, his own hard-wiring or his own culture wanted to like some single one of the people he’d devoted his life to helping.
A blast of raucous hard-wire shatter-rock blared out from beneath her—she got her underbelly cameras on just as Alex peeled out in the sled at top speed, music screaming at top volume.
Its hard-wired analogue instruments struck him as startlingly old-fashioned, though, in this age of glass cockpits.
Dan said as he tried to unscrew the cap which protected the hard-wire connector on the gun mount.
I read somewhere they're hard-wired to want customers the way people want sex.
The device was equipped with a three-lens turret which whirred as it turned and delivered a tight shot to her hard-wired brain.
The screen was showing the attempts of Zambendorf, who was elsewhere in a sealed room with no means of communication to the outside apart from a nonswitchable, hard-wired terminal, to divine the contents of closed envelopes selected blind by Periera, guess random sequences of numbers and ESP cards, and describe drawings made on the spur of the moment by both the testers.
With the benefit of hard-wiring through the phone lines, Alf was able to zoom the camera in and out via a handheld remote.
At other times, no other solution is possible except climbing a telephone pole and hard-wiring an eavesdropping device.