hard-wire (redirected from hard-wires)

hard-wire (härdwr)

tr.v. hard-wired, hard-wir·ing, hard-wires

1. To connect (electronic components, for example) by electrical wires or cables.

2. To implement (a capability) through logic circuitry that is permanently connected within a computer and therefore not subject to change by programming.

3. To determine or put into effect by physiological or neurological mechanisms; make automatic or innate: "It may be that certain orders of anxiety are hard-wired in us" (Armand Schwerner).