hard-wire

verb

To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person hard-wires · participle present hard-wiring · participle past hard-wired · past hard-wired

  1. businessTo connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
  2. computingTo implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
  3. broadlyhuman sciencesTo make a pattern of behaviour automatic.
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    "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.

    2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34
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