jargon (By analogy with "hard-wired") Said of a data value

or behaviour written directly into a program, possibly in

multiple places, where it cannot be easily modified. There

are several alternatives, depending on how often the value is

likely to change. It may be replaced with a compile-time

constant, such as a C "#define" macro, in which case a

change will still require recompilation; or it may be read at

run time from a profile, resource (see de-rezz), or

environment variable that a user can easily modify; or it

may be read as part of the program's input data.