English - Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɚ/

English - Noun

hardware (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. (informal) Equipment.

   military hardware

3. (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.

4. (technology) Electronic equipment.
5. Metal implements.
6. (slang) A firearm.

Related terms

• software
• hardware store

Translations

English - External Links

• Hardware on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia

French - Etymology

From English

French - Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʁdwɛʁ/

French - Noun

hardware m (uncountable, plural [please provide])

1. (computing) hardware

Synonyms

• matériel

French - External Links

• “hardware” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman - Etymology

Borrowing from English hardware.

Norman - Noun

hardware m (usually uncountable)

1. (Jersey, computing) hardware

Portuguese - Noun

hardware m (plural hardwares)

1. (computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)

Spanish - Noun

hardware m (plural hardwares)

1. hardware

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