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hard-code

hard-code is the alternative spelling of hard code.

Meaning of hard code

Verb

hard code (third-person singular simple present hard codes, present participle hard coding, simple past and past participle hard coded)

  1. To build absolute and unchangeable values into a program such that they can only be changed by modifying the source code.
  2. To insert an unchangeable program into a device; to hard-wire.
  3. To insert subtitles inside a video file, permanently modifying it.
    Synonyms:
    hardsub

Forms of hard-code

third-person singular presenthard-codes
present participlehard-coding
past participlehard-coded
pasthard-coded

Questions about hard-code

What is hard-code the alternative spelling of?
Hard-code is the alternative spelling of hard code.

Words near hard-code in the dictionary

  1. hard-boiledness
  2. hard-boiling
  3. hard-boils
  4. hard-brick
  5. hard-charging
  6. hard-code
  7. hard-coded
  8. hard-codes
  9. hard-coding
  10. hard-codings
  11. hard-core

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard-code (page history and authors); hard code (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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