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See also: Hardware
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
hardware (uncountable)
- 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.
- (informal) Equipment.
- military hardware
- 2003 June 6, “Mission to Mars”, in CBS_Rather:
- BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.
- 2009 May, Lee S. Langston, “plowing new ground.”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 131, number 5, page 40:
- It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring.
- 2011 January, “Swedish Sportster”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 1, page 27:
- Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive.
- (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, "Binary Arithmetic", R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.
- Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
- 1952, "Binary Arithmetic", R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.
- (technology) Electronic equipment.
- Metal implements.
- (slang) A firearm.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Amharic: ሃርድዌር (hardwer)
Translations[edit]
fixtures, equipment, tools and devices
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equipment
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material part of a computer
electronic equipment
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metal implements
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slang: firearm
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Further reading[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English
Pronunciation[edit]
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /aʁ.dwɛʁ/
Noun[edit]
hardware m (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- “hardware” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English hardware.
Noun[edit]
hardware m (uncountable)
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
hardware m (plural hardwares)
- (computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English hardware.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hardware m (plural hardwares)
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