Hard-wire
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Hard-wire is a verb meaning (electronics) To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
Meaning
(electronics) To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
More Meanings
- (computing) To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
- (psychology, by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.
Example Sentences
"And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation. "You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation.
Word Forms
- hard-wires
- hard-wiring
- hard-wired
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wire, wire-tap, underwire, wiretap, arcweld, hardface.
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