hard-wire
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Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To implement a feature in hardware rather than in software so that it cannot easily be changed.
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Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences 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 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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