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hard-wiring

hard-wiring is the present participle and gerund of hard-wire.

Meaning of hard-wire

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. To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
  3. (broadly) To make a pattern of behaviour automatic.
    • "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...2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34

Questions about hard-wiring

What is hard-wiring the present participle and gerund of?
Hard-wiring is the present participle and gerund of hard-wire.

Words near hard-wiring in the dictionary

  1. hard-water
  2. hard-wearing
  3. hard-wire
  4. hard-wired
  5. hard-wires
  6. hard-wiring
  7. hard-won
  8. hard-work
  9. hard-working
  10. Harda
  11. Hardacre

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