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hardcoded: adj.

1. [common] Said of data inserted directly into a program, where it cannot be easily modified, as opposed to data in some profile, resource (see de-rezz sense 2), or environment variable that a user or hacker can easily modify.

2. In C, this is esp. applied to use of a literal instead of a #define macro (see magic number).


 
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