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[hahrd-wair] 
–noun
| 1. | metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery. |
| 2. | the mechanical equipment necessary for conducting an activity, usually distinguished from the theory and design that make the activity possible. |
| 3. | military weapons and combat equipment. |
| 4. | Slang. a weapon carried on one's person: The rougher types were asked to check their hardware at the door. |
| 5. | Computers. the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical devices comprising a computer system, as the CPU, disk drives, keyboard, or screen. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Hardware
Hard"ware`\, n. Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : hardware
Spanish:
ferretería,
German:
die Eisenwaren,
Japanese:
金物類
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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hardware
1515, from hard + ware. In the sense of "physical components of a computer" it dates from 1947.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| hardware (härd'wâr') Pronunciation Key
A computer, its components, and its related equipment. Hardware includes disk drives, integrated circuits, display screens, cables, modems, speakers, and printers. Compare software. |
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hardware hardware
The physical, touchable, material parts of a computer or other system. The term is used to distinguish these fixed parts of a system from the more changable software or data components which it executes, stores, or carries.
Computer hardware typically consists chiefly of electronic devices (CPU, memory, display) with some electromechanical parts (keyboard, printer, disk drives, tape drives, loudspeakers) for input, output, and storage, though completely non-electronic (mechanical, electromechanical, hydraulic, biological) computers have also been conceived of and built.
See also firmware, wetware.
(1997-01-23)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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