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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inbuilt
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I had an inbuilt Dash Riprock decoding device.
▪ Includes an inbuilt conditioning formula to protect hair during perming.
▪ Some modern projectors have an inbuilt device for quickly switching to a new bulb.
▪ The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position.
▪ They do have an inbuilt desire to lay down dominance over one another.
▪ Unlike some singers, she has an inbuilt discipline.
▪ What I now faced was a small town with a strongly macho bias and an inbuilt resistance to change.
▪ Where the guillotine improved on the Halifax design was the inbuilt facility to position the victim accurately and quickly in the machine.
Wiktionary
inbuilt

a. Existing as an essential constituent; built-in; inherent; integral. alt. Existing as an essential constituent; built-in; inherent; integral.

WordNet
inbuilt

adj. existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth" [syn: built-in, constitutional, inherent, integral]

Usage examples of "inbuilt".

He held the big industrial dustpan carefully, headed for the inbuilt hospital-style sharps container, the one with the barbed biohazard symbol.

To a layman or, indeed, anybody not aboard an elderly torpedo boat, a paltry twenty-three degree difference in wind direction might seem negligible: to a person actually aboard such a boat the difference is crucial, marking, as it did for those with inbuilt queasiness, the border-line between the uncomfortable and the intolerable.

There were imperious voices in its mind: inbuilt programming, speaking a language it knew instinctively.

At least, it came closest to matching that type in the inbuilt files of the robot’s brain.

The inbuilt command against revealing an owner’s business was perhaps the most highly stressed program code in its memory, the Second Law priority reinforced to the best of factory’s technicians’ abilities.

The soft-cyber implants had an inbuilt bias which told them—forced them to accept—that the Korozhet were good, wonderful and to be obeyed at all costs.

The propellant had its own inbuilt oxidising agent, but not nearly enough to ensure complete combustion: two high-speed turbine fans which started up two seconds before the ignition of the first four cylinders supplied air in quantity and under high pressure for the first fifteen seconds until the missile reached a high enough speed to supply itself with sufficient air through its giant air-scoops.

By this time quite a number of curious journalists from the coach - activated, almost certainly, by the inbuilt curiosity that motivates all good journalists, were crowded round the unconscious Kowalski.

A whole series of inbuilt rules in MorningLightMountain’s device suddenly activated, opening up new junction connections and closing others.

The mechanism also has an inbuilt twenty-four-hour timer, which the satellites have to reset every day, again by broadcasting a code.

And he had an inbuilt reluctance to be identified as any sort of important figure—especially here.

The big green-and-gold Scarret had a three-core converter cell for power, with superconductor cabling and multi-ring direct axle motors with inbuilt turning angle compensators.

It was startling to realize that human language, for all its inbuilt limitations, struck the spiders, in some respects, as superior to their own method of communication.

All the drills and preparations would be wasted if his inbuilt caution had proved him wrong.

Some said it was out of fear, others that the inbuilt tradition and harsh discipline of the Navy were the real reasons.