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Putting data in the source code of a program
Hard coding is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to
Hard_coding
AI-dependent computer programming
written by vibe-coding". Vibe coding has raised concerns about understanding and accountability. Some developers commit AI-generated code without comprehending
Vibe_coding
Software design pattern for object creation
away from hard-coding behaviors toward defining a smaller set of basic behaviors that can be composed into more complex ones. Hard-coding behaviors are
Creational_pattern
Online platform for coding interview preparation
LeetCode is an online platform for software coding interview preparation. The platform provides coding and algorithmic problems intended for users to practice
LeetCode
Computer Networking Program
convolutional coding and filter-bank coding. Finding optimal coding solutions for general network problems with arbitrary demands is a hard problem, which
Linear_network_coding
Scheme for controlling errors in data over noisy communication channels
telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors
Error_correction_code
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Method of writing code
Write the simplest code that passes the new test Inelegant code and hard coding is acceptable. The code will be honed in Step 6. No code should be added
Test-driven_development
Study of the properties of codes and their fitness
There are four types of coding: Data compression (or source coding) Error control (or channel coding) Cryptographic coding Line coding Data compression attempts
Coding_theory
Hard-coded search path
In computer science, rpath designates the run-time search path hard-coded in an executable file or library. Dynamic linking loaders use the rpath to find
Rpath
codes. Hard-copy directories can also be consulted in all post offices, and some libraries. There are currently 84 FSAs in this list. No postal codes
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Type of functions designed for being unsolvable by root-finding algorithms
and Johns Hopkins University, released details of the DUHK (Don't Use Hard-coded Keys) attack on WPA2 where hardware vendors use a hardcoded seed key for
Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
Cryptographically_secure_pseudorandom_number_generator
TeX-based computer typesetting system
In the process of opening up TeX much of the internal code is rewritten. Instead of hard coding new features in TeX itself, users (or macro package writers)
LuaTeX
2000 video game
were taken down permanently by mistake as a result of the developers hard-coding the IP-address to the servers in the game and Sega giving away a network
Daytona_USA_2001
Method by which information is represented in the brain
or "spike firing", increases. Rate coding is sometimes called frequency coding. Rate coding is a traditional coding scheme, assuming that most, if not
Neural_coding
Numeric value with an unclear meaning
stored on a computer FourCC – Identifier for a file type Hard coding – Putting data in the source code of a program Hexspeak – Novelty form of variant English
Magic_number_(programming)
Code added to allow recovery of lost data
Erasure coding was invented by Irving Reed and Gustave Solomon in 1960. There are many different erasure coding schemes. The most popular erasure codes are
Erasure_code
Architectural style for client-server applications
resources that are currently available. There is no need for the client to be hard-coded with information regarding the structure of the server. Several models
REST
Pattern used within a communications system to represent digital data
original on 2022-01-22. (in support of MIL-STD-188). Line Coding Lecture No. 9 Line Coding in Digital Communication CodSim 2.0: Open source simulator
Line_code
Alleged data encoding technique
The Sloot Digital Coding System (SDCS) is an alleged technique for data encoding claimed to have been invented in 1995 by Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (1944–1999)
Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
Software translation testing
by combining (concatenation) strings that are not made localizable (hard-coding) Michael Kaplan (a Microsoft program manager) describes the process of
Pseudolocalization
Electro-mechanical data storage device
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical computer data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data
Hard_disk_drive
Feature of continuing on a new line when a line is full
than within words, where possible. Word wrap makes it unnecessary to hard-code newline delimiters within paragraphs, and allows the display of text to
Wrapping_(text)
Application virtualisation software
Composition. Path hard coding: The application should not have folder/file path hard coded in the application itself. Some applications hard code the path of
Microsoft_App-V
Field of study
modify the creature's behaviors and characteristics either directly, by hard coding into the simulation (leg type A increases speed and metabolism), or indirectly
Artificial_life
Type of digital rights management
locations, which include both hard-coding techniques (e.g., device model variants for different countries) and soft-coding techniques. For example, FaceTime
Regional_lockout
Informal guidelines used by software developers
Coding best practices or programming best practices are a set of informal, sometimes personal, rules (best practices) that many software developers, in
Coding_best_practices
Topics referred to by the same term
"Hardwired" (Gemma Hayes song), 2024 Hard coding, embedding software input or configuration data into source code This disambiguation page lists articles
Hardwire
Identifier for authenticating with an API
contain keys in plaintext. Developers may hard-code keys into source code, and forget that when they release the code. Having unprotected keys in mobile apps
API_key
1988 film by John McTiernan
Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts
Die_Hard
File format for storing digital video data
visual (video without audio) data in a video coding format (e.g. VP9) alongside audio data in an audio coding format (e.g. Opus). The container can also
Video_file_format
Changing a factory-assigned MAC address
of a network interface on a networked device. The MAC address that is hard-coded on a network interface controller (NIC) cannot be changed. However, many
MAC_spoofing
Alphabet of the Arabic language
or for backwards compatibility with implementations that rely on the hard-coding of glyph forms. Finally, the Unicode encoding of Arabic is in logical
Arabic_alphabet
instance, if a company has 38 employees at the time a design is done, hard coding a "38" as the "number of employees" within company would certainly not
Warnier/Orr_diagram
implement a nationwide postal code system. The introduction of the postal code began with a test in Ottawa on 1 April 1971. Coding of Ottawa was followed by
Postal_codes_in_Canada
Language for controlling a computer
Volume 43, Issue 11, November 2008, p.109 Hierso, Severine (10 June 2022). "Coding From 1849 to 2022: a Guide to The Timeline of Programming Languages". IEEE
Programming_language
Compact encoding of digital data
source coding: encoding is done at the source of the data before it is stored or transmitted. Source coding should not be confused with channel coding, for
Data_compression
2007 American action film directed by Len Wiseman
Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is a 2007 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman. It is the sequel to Die Hard with
Live_Free_or_Die_Hard
Speech coding algorithm
currently the most widely used speech coding algorithm[citation needed]. It is also used in MPEG-4 Audio speech coding. CELP is commonly used as a generic
Code-excited linear prediction
Code-excited_linear_prediction
Science fiction with concern for scientific accuracy
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in 1957
Hard_science_fiction
Removing vendor-installed limitations in tech products
defined as the act of removing limitations that a vendor attempted to hard-code or hard-wire into its hardware and/or software. It is a form of privilege
Jailbreak_(computer_science)
Catalog of software weaknesses and vulnerabilities
path/directory tree traversal errors, race conditions, cross-site scripting, hard-coded passwords, and insecure random numbers. CWE category 121 is for stack-based
Common_Weakness_Enumeration
Software source code with poor structure
Spaghetti code is computer source code that encodes control flow that is convoluted, and therefore, hard to understand. Control statements direct program
Spaghetti_code
Standard defining codes for currencies
on 2005-10-13 due to not complying with the currency coding standardization rules. The numeric code for the German Mark was originally 280: it was changed
ISO_4217
6-pin mini-DIN connector for connecting keyboards and mice to a PC compatible computer
devices use different sets of commands and the device drivers generally are hard-coded to communicate with each device at the address of the port that is conventionally
PS/2_port
Checking software against a standard
language. Untranslated messages in the original language may be hard coded in the source code, and thus untranslatable. Some messages may be created automatically
Software_testing
Format for digital video content
transform (DCT) coding and motion compensation. A computer software or hardware component that compresses or decompresses a specific video coding format is
Video_coding_format
Proprietary programming language
record definitions or pages, without using hard-coded string literals. Other language features, such as PeopleCode data types and metastrings, reflect the
PeopleCode
Software programming technique
it uses, creating a hard-coded dependency. public class Client { private Service service; Client() { // The dependency is hard-coded. this.service = new
Dependency_injection
algorithm by hard-coding access to system resources that are used by other algorithms. XDAIS prohibits the use of this type of hard-coding. Instead, XDAIS
XDAIS_algorithms
Full node software client for Bitcoin Cash
The Bitcoin Core client, from which Bitcoin Unlimited is forked, has a hard coded one megabyte block limit; Bitcoin Unlimited differs by allowing users
Bitcoin_Unlimited
Creation and maintenance of websites
by 'tags'. This was a quicker means of development than coding in a purely procedural coding language such as Perl. Both of these approaches have now
Web_design
Computer processor which works on arrays of several numbers at once
difference: x and y are advanced by hard-coded constant 16, n is decremented by a hard-coded 4, so initially it is hard to appreciate the significance. The
Vector_processor
Transmission of language with brief pulses
Morse, leaving only two coding elements, the dot and the dash. Codes for German umlauted vowels and CH were introduced. Gerke's code was adopted in Germany
Morse_code
Entropy coding method
Range coding (or range encoding) is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic
Range_coding
Computer systems programming special block code
trigger the same mechanism: a software interrupt. Rather than using a hard-coded interrupt dispatch table at the hardware level, software interrupts are
Interrupt_handler
British crime drama television series
Code of Silence is a 2025 British crime drama television series for ITVX starring Rose Ayling-Ellis, Andrew Buchan and Charlotte Ritchie about a deaf civilian
Code_of_Silence_(TV_series)
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Process of adapting software to run in a different context
interpreter with the code generator source as input. This will generate the machine code for the code generator. The difficult part of coding the optimization
Porting
Unix shell
For example, The $s variable is the ancestor of $HOME, used to avoid hard-coding pathnames. The $p variable is the ancestor of $PATH, which let users
PWB_shell
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Computer networking utility
advisory regarding a composite Diffie-Hellman parameter which had been hard-coded into the OpenSSL implementation of socat. The implausibility that a composite
Netcat
Type of error-correcting code using convolution
data, which gives rise to the term 'convolutional coding'. The sliding nature of the convolutional codes facilitates trellis decoding using a time-invariant
Convolutional_code
2022 video game
Hard West 2 is a 2022 tactical role-playing game developed by Ice Code Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment for Windows. It is the sequel
Hard_West_2
Software developer
"Lamson - email app coding without the palm sweat". The Register. Retrieved 2012-12-24. Shaw, Zed. "About Learn Code The Hard Way". Retrieved 2015-08-01
Zed_Shaw
polynomial-time correspond to encoding the input integers in binary coding. If a problem is strongly NP-hard, then it does not even have a pseudo-polynomial time algorithm
Weak_NP-completeness
Digital audio format
for an audio coding standard. In June 1989, 14 audio coding algorithms were submitted. Because of certain similarities between these coding proposals, they
MP3
Family of error-correcting codes that encode data in blocks
In coding theory, block codes are a large and important family of error-correcting codes that encode data in blocks. There is a vast number of examples
Block_code
Computing concept
provide much entropy. Lacking easy access to entropy, some devices may use hard-coded keys to seed random generators, or seed random generators from easily
Entropy_(computing)
Theory of cognition
way. There has been controversy to the limitations of the dual coding theory. Dual coding theory does not take into account the possibility of cognition
Dual-coding_theory
Toolkit for generating malware
algorithm and encrypted using a modified version of the RC4 cipher. A hard-coded 128-bit key decrypts embedded content. For decrypting network traffic
BlackEnergy
Idea of being born empty of mental content
rasa reinforcement learning, meaning it had no access to human games or hard-coded human knowledge about either board game, only the rules of the games.
Tabula_rasa
Special character sequences in the C programming language
next line, the code must output a newline between the two words. The following code achieves the goal via text formatting and a hard-coded ASCII character
Escape_sequences_in_C
Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, via its applications for smartphones, and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many
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Coding technique in communication technology
Run-length limited (RLL) is a line coding technique that is used to send arbitrary data over a communications channel with bandwidth limits. RLL is used
Run-length_limited
Productivity and collaboration software
that allows multiple people to create and edit websites, without requiring coding knowledge or other web design skills. It was introduced in February 2008
Google_Workspace
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top group. Top-coding is a general problem for analysis of public use data sets. Top-coding in the Current Population Survey makes it hard to estimate measures
Top-coded
Method of bypassing authentication or encryption in a computer
disastrous consequences. A backdoor in a login system might take the form of a hard coded user and password combination which gives access to the system. An example
Backdoor_(computing)
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Measures of how efficiently algorithms use resources
may also be trivially modified to have good best-case running time by hard-coding solutions to a finite set of inputs, making the measure almost meaningless
Best,_worst_and_average_case
Theorem in computability theory
n, which (1) first executes program a on input i (both a and i being hard-coded into the definition of t), and (2) then returns the square of n. If a(i)
Rice's_theorem
Computer programming convention
example code is 4 spaces even though this varies by coding convention. Attributes of C, C++ and other curly-brace programming language coding style include
Indentation_style
64-bit extension of the ARM architecture
scientific workloads. The specification allows for ARM licensees to choose a hard-coded architectural register width between 128 and 2048 bits in multiples of
AArch64
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Game development and framework for computer science research platform
resources. Thus, most game designs through the 1980s were designed through a hard-coded rule set with a small number of levels and graphics data. Since the golden
Game_engine
Framework or toolkit a program uses to display the graphical user interface
OpenVG, or EGL. The look and feel of the graphical control elements can be hard-coded or decoupled, allowing the graphical control elements to be themed/skinned
Widget_toolkit
Type of reservoir computer
over the theory of artificial neural networks because: Circuits are not hard coded to perform a specific task. Continuous time inputs are handled "naturally"
Liquid_state_machine
N-dimensional gradient noise function
for the Rust programming language providing OpenSimplex noise – does not hard code gradient initial values Python implementation R implementation v t e
OpenSimplex_noise
Video game engine
Orange Box. An artist-driven, threaded particle system replaced previously hard-coded effects for all of the games within.[citation needed] An in-process tools
Source_(game_engine)
Programmable digital computer used to control machinery
97-110. Parr 1998, p. 451 Bolton 2015, p. 15 Goodin, Dan (2021-02-26). "Hard-coded key vulnerability in Logix PLCs has severity score of 10 out of 10". Ars
Programmable_logic_controller
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Encoding methods for representing data on magnetic media
characters to which a special coding character is added. And the higher density is based on a combination of a modified coding scheme, a smaller interrecord
Group_coded_recording
Universal lossless data compression algorithm
far. A standard entropy encoding such as Huffman coding or arithmetic coding then uses shorter codes for values with higher probabilities. The following
Lempel–Ziv–Welch
Study of hardware and software systems that have a "real-time constraint"
machine language and thus bypassing all interrupting Windows code. However, several coding libraries exist that offer real-time capabilities in a high-level
Real-time_computing
unnecessary computer code Coding by exception Error hiding – Failing to report details of an error Hard code – Putting data in the source code of a programPages
List of software anti-patterns
List_of_software_anti-patterns
1992 Microsoft operating system version
version. The Control Panel also received changes; its items were now hard-coded, and additional items could be added by placing additional .cpl files
Windows_3.1
Lossless data compression algorithm
contain repeats, where the entropy-coding cost of "spelling out" the repeats is less than the cost creating and entropy-coding a rule to capture them. (In general
Grammar-based_code
Usage of punctuation
character preceding the mark. If it is a space or another of a set of hard-coded characters or if the mark begins a line, the mark will be rendered as
Quotation_marks_in_English
Including one data set inside another automatically
directive allows common source code to be reused while avoiding the pitfalls of copy-and-paste-programming and hard coding of constants. As with many innovations
Transclusion
HARD CODING
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Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Arabic, Australian, British, Christian, English, German, Irish, Jamaican, Teutonic
Bard; Surname; Guardian; Watchman
Boy/Male
Hindu
Hearts feeling, Main, Meaning
Male
Japanese
(1-晴, 2-春, 3-陽) Japanese unisex name HARU means 1) "clear up," 2) "spring," or 3) "sun, sunlight." Compare with another form of Haru.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the possessive case of the personal name Hard, denoting a son or servant of someone called Hard.
Surname or Lastname
English and North German
English and North German : from a personal name or nickname meaning ‘stag’, Middle English hert, Middle Low German hërte, harte.German : variant spelling of Hardt 1 and 2.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or a nickname from German and Yiddish hart ‘hard’.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAirt ‘descendant of Art’, a byname meaning ‘bear’, ‘hero’. The English name became established in Ireland in the 17th century.French : from an Old French word meaning ‘rope’, hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a rope maker or a hangman.Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch hart, hert ‘hard’, ‘strong’, ‘ruthless’, ‘unruly’.This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Stephen Hart was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Hearts Feelings
Male
Hindi/Indian
(हरि) Hindi name HARI means "he who takes away." In Hindu mythology, this is a name borne by Vishnu.
Male
English
 English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English weard, WARD means "guard, watchman."Â
Male
English
Pet name for longer English names containing Hard- or Hart-, HARDY means "brave, hardy, strong."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Chard or South Chard in Somerset, recorded in Domesday Book as Cerdren, possibly from Old English ceart ‘rough heathland’ + ærn ‘building’, ‘dwelling’. In some instances the surname may have arisen simply as a topographic name from ceart.French : from the personal name Chard, a short form of Richard;French : habitational name for someone from Chard in the department of Creuse.
Female
Japanese
(1-晴, 2-春, 3-陽) Japanese unisex name HARU means 1) "clear up," 2) "spring," or 3) "sun, sunlight."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Heard.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Yorkshire and Northumbria), also Scottish
English (chiefly Yorkshire and Northumbria), also Scottish : variant spelling of Heard.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and French
English, Scottish, and French : nickname for a brave or
foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold’,
‘courageous’ (of Germanic origin; compare Hard 1).Irish : in addition to being an importation of the English name,
this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of
Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.Scottish : variant spelling of Hardie 2.Bearers of the surname Hardy from Anjou and Normandy, France, are documented
in Quebec City in 1669. The secondary surnames Châtillon,
Boy/Male
British, Danish, Dutch, English, Swedish
Hard Strength; Firm; Brave; Hardy; Strong
Male
German
Short form of German Harman, HARM means "bold/hardy man." In use by the Dutch.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Midlands)
English (chiefly Midlands) : variant spelling of Heard.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Herd.Respelling of Swedish HÃ¥rd (see Hard 2).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old English personal name Heard or a Norman cognate Hard(on), also of Germanic origin. This was a byname meaning ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, but it also seems to have been used as a short form of the various compound names containing this as a first element. Occasionally this may also be a variant of Hardy.English, German, Dutch, and Swedish (Hård) : nickname for a stern or severe man, from Middle English, Middle Low German hard, Middle Dutch hart, hert, Swedish hård ‘hard’, ‘inflexible’. The Swedish name was probably originally a soldier’s name.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of particularly hard ground or one that was difficult to farm. Compare Hardacre.Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch harde, herde ‘herder’.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : nickname for someone with a deformed hand or who had lost one hand, from Middle English hand, Middle High German hant, found in such appellations as Liebhard mit der Hand (Augsburg 1383).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from German Hand ‘hand’ (see 1).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flaithimh (see Guthrie), resulting from an erroneous association of the Gaelic name with the Gaelic word lámh ‘hand’. It is used as an English equivalent for several other names of Gaelic origin too, e.g. Claffey, Glavin, and McClave.Dutch : from a variant of hont ‘dog’, ‘hound’, either a derogatory nickname, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a dog.
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HARD CODING
Male
French
 French form of English Dennis, DENIS means "follower of Dionysos." Compare with another form of Denis.
Girl/Female
Indian
Gem of Tamil Language
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Its a Name Starts of God Venkateshwara Swamy
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Hebrew, Swedish
Diminutive Form of Josephine; Yahweh will Add; God will Increase; God has Added a Little Child
Girl/Female
Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Greek, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Muslim, Sindhi
Destiny
Girl/Female
Norse
Of the sea.
Girl/Female
Indian
Roshani
Boy/Male
Tamil
Noble-minded, Aristocratic
Girl/Female
Indian, Kannada
Sister if Prophet Mohammed
Male
Arthurian
, a knight of the Round Table.
HARD CODING
HARD CODING
HARD CODING
HARD CODING
HARD CODING
a.
Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
superl.
Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
superl.
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
a.
Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
a. Vigorously
contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
v. t.
To harden; to make hard.
superl.
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
superl.
Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
v. t.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
adv.
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
n.
A plant; chard.
a.
Having hard or strong hands; as, a hard-fisted laborer.
v. t.
To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows.
superl.
Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
n.
The hard wing case of a beetle.
superl.
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
a.
Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.
adv.
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
superl.
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
superl.
Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.