hard-wire

See also: hardwire

English

Verb

hard-wire (third-person singular simple present hard-wires, present participle hard-wiring, simple past and past participle hard-wired)

1. To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
2. (computing) To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
3. (psychology, by extension) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.
   • 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34:

     "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.

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