hardware

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/

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.

Translations

• German: Eisenwaren
• Portuguese: equipamento

Translations

• Russian: оборудование

Translations

• French: matériel
• German: Hardware
• Italian: hardware
• Portuguese: hardware
• Russian: аппарату́ра
• Spanish: hardware, soporte físico

Translations

• Russian: аппарату́ра

Translations

• French: quincaillerie
• Portuguese: ferragens
• Spanish: fierros

Translations

• French: arme à feu
• Spanish: arma de fuego

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