wired-in, a.
(stress variable)
[f. wired ppl. a. + in adv.]
1. Bounded by wire, in the form of netting or fencing. Cf. wire v. 2 c.
| 1855 Poultry Chron. III. 508 A moveable house and wired-in run which..is tenanted by a pair of Bantams. 1973 J. Thomson Death Cap ix. 128 She was feeding the chickens..in the wired-in run. 1975 J. McClure Snake ix. 118 Wessels..hid behind the wired-in back of a parked truck. |
2. Incorporated in or connected to a device or system by means of wiring. Also fig.
| 1957 C. E. Osgood et al. Measurement of Meaning i. 5 Certain stimulus patterns have a ‘wired-in’ connection with certain behaviour patterns (unconditional reflexes) and additional stimuli have acquired this capacity (conditional reflexes). 1962 Commun. Assoc. Computing Machinery V. 159/1 (heading) On a wired-in binary-to-decimal conversion scheme. 1975 P. Elbow Oppositions in Chaucer v. 120 His predilection for language and thought frees him..from a single, rigid, programmed, or wired-in response to a fox. 1975 Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xv. 234 This should be fitted with sound⁓proof projector booth, wired-in good quality speakers, and a large permanent screen. 1982 Data Communications Oct. 119/2 These terminals are dedicated to specific tasks through specific wired-in instructions and have no built-in intelligence. 1984 Science 22 June 1304/3 The wired-in semantics of these connections substitutes for the time-consuming interpretation process needed in systems that pass symbolic information. |