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hard⋅ware

  [hahrd-wair]
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–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.
Compare software.

Origin:
1505–15; 1955–60 for def. 5; hard + ware 1
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hard·ware   (härd'wâr')   
n.  

  1. Metal goods and utensils such as locks, tools, and cutlery.

    1. Computer Science A computer and the associated physical equipment directly involved in the performance of data-processing or communications functions.

    2. Machines and other physical equipment directly involved in performing an industrial, technological, or military function.

  3. Informal Weapons, especially military weapons.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Cultural Dictionary

hardware

The physical machinery and devices that make up a computer system. It is contrasted to software — the programs and instructions used to run the system.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Slang Dictionary
hardware

  1. n.
    whiskey; potent liquor. : This hardware is enough to knock your socks off.
  2. n.
    hard drugs or hard liquor. : No wine for me. Give me the hardware.
  3. n.
    a weapon; a gun. (Underworld and Western.) : I think I see your hardware showing.
  4. n.
    computer parts, as opposed to computer programs. : The software is okay, so it must be the hardware that's off.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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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Science Dictionary
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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Computing Dictionary

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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