hardware

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/, SAMPA: /"hA:d%wE@/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɚ/, SAMPA: /"hArd%wE@`/

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Noun

hardware (uncountable)

1. Metal implements.
2. Firearm.
3. (technology) Electronic equipment.
4. (computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
   • 1952: Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer. — Binary Arithmetic, R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.
5. Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.

   He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.

Related terms

• software
• hardware store

Translations

Metal implements

Croatian: željezarija f. Czech: železářské zboží n. Danish: udstyr (da) n. Finnish: rautatavara

Greek: σιδηρικά (el) (sidiriká) n. pl., είδη κιγκαλερίας (el) (eídi kigkalerías) n. pl. Manx: yiarnrey (gv) Portuguese: ferragens f., quinquilharia f. Sindhi: سامَگَرِي (sd) (saamagaree)

Firearm

Czech: zbraň (cs) f. Danish: våben (da) n. Finnish: tuliase (fi)

French: arme à feu (fr) f. Greek: βαρύς στρατιωτικός εξοπλισμός (el) (varýs stratiotikós exoplismós) m.

Electronic equipment

Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (bn) (harḑ-owar) Croatian: sklopovlje n., hardver m. Czech: hardware (cs) m. Danish: maskine (da)r pl., maskinel (da) n. Finnish: laitteisto (fi) Greek: ηλεκτρονικός εξοπλισμός (el) (ilektronikós exoplismós) m.

Mandarin: 硬件 (cmn) Polish: sprzęt (pl) m. Romanian: hardware (ro) n., aparatură (ro) f. Russian: аппаратура (ru) (apparatúra) f., хардвер (ru) (xardvér) m., оборудование (ru) (oborúdovanije) n. Turkish: donanım (tr)

The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (bn) (harḑ-owar) Catalan: maquinari (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 硬件 (cmn) (yìngjiàn), (Taiwan) 硬體 (cmn), 硬体 (cmn) (yìngtǐ) Croatian: sklopovlje n., hardver m., računalna sklopovska podrška (hr) f., strojna oprema (hr) f., strojevina (hr) f. Czech: hardware (cs) m. Danish: hardware c., maskinel (da) n., isenkram (da) (slang) Esperanto: aparataro (eo) Finnish: rauta (slang), laitteisto French: matériel (fr) m. German: Hardware (de) f. Greek: υλισμικό (el) (ylismikó) n. Irish: crua-earraí m. pl.

Italian: hardware (it) m. Japanese: ハードウェア (hādou~ea), ハード (hādo) Korean: 하드웨어 (ko) (hadeuweeo), 굳은모 (ko) Maltese: ħardwer (mt) m. Norwegian: maskinvare (no) m. Polish: sprzęt (pl) m. Portuguese: hardware (pt) m. Romanian: hardware (ro) f. and n., aparatură (ro) f., aparataj (ro) n. Russian: аппаратура (ru) (apparatúra) f., хардвер (ru) (xardvér) m. Scottish Gaelic: bathar-cruaidh (gd) m. Serbian: sklopovlje, čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina Sindhi: ڳڻپيوگري Swedish: hårdvara (sv) c. Turkish: donanım (tr)

Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general purpose construction and repair of a structure or object

Danish: udstyr (da) n., isenkram (da) n. German: Eisenwaren (de) f. pl.

Greek: δομικά υλικά (el) (domiká yliká) n. pl. Serbian: sklopovlje, čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina

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Catalan: maquinari m. Persian: نرم‌افزار (narmafzar)

Korean: 기계설비 (gigyeseolbi) Turkish: donanım

See also

• Wikipedia article on hardware

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French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA: /aʁdwɛʁ/, X-SAMPA: /aRdwER/

Noun

hardware m. (usually uncountable)

1. (computing) hardware

Synonyms

• matériel