[
UK
/ˈɪnbɪlt/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity
a constitutional inability to tell the truth
How To Use inbuilt In A Sentence
- His height gives him an inbuilt advantage over his opponent.
- Organisations have enormous inbuilt political and cultural inertia. Times, Sunday Times
- Although they are very different languages, FORTH has a very similar philosophy to LISP; both emphasise maximal expressiveness in a minimal set of orthogonal primitives, helped extensively by helpings of metaprogramming, low-cost abstraction, and no inherent separation between 'inbuilt' and 'user' facilities of the language. Snell-Pym » FORTH
- The present system has an inbuilt, inescapable detrimental effect on all cases. Times, Sunday Times
- When they tore ivy full of birds' nests from the walls, they replaced it with 36 sparrow boxes; the thunderbox loo has an inbuilt heater.
- Thus the scientific model of verification has an inbuilt mechanism for the evolution and promotion of generally accepted standards.
- If all goes well, 6, 000 navy blue, three-speed, sit-up-and-beg bikes with an inbuilt lighting system will be whizzing around the capital's streets next summer.
- Your body has an inbuilt mechanism which ensures the pain you endured is lost deep in the recesses of your subconscious, enabling you to psyche yourself up for the next time.
- I am continually offended with the blame laid on the SNP for any anti-English sentiment in Scotland, or that such bile is somehow 'inbuilt' in Scots. Why do so many people hate the SNP?
- Unlike some singers, she has an inbuilt discipline.