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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 ).