Hardware
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English
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Noun
hardware (uncountable)
- Metal implements.
- Firearm.
- Electronic equipment.
- 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.
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Related terms
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Translations
- Czech: železáÅské zbožà n (1), zbraÅ f (2), hardware m (3, 4)
- Chinese: 硬件/ç¡¬é« (yingjian)
- Danish: isenkram n; udstyr n, maskinel c
- French: matériel m (4)
- German: Hardware f (4)
- Japanese: ãã¼ãã¦ã§ã¢ (hÄdowea)
- Korean: 기ê³ì¤ë¹ (gigyeseolbi)
- Norwegian: maskinvare m (4)
- Persian: Ùر٠âاÙزار (narmafzar) (4)
- Portuguese: ferragens f (1), quinquilharia f (1), hardware m (4)
- Swedish: hårdvara c (4)
- Turkish: donanım
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See also
cs:hardware fr:hardware ko:hardware hu:hardware pl:hardware pt:hardware zh:hardware