hardware
See also: Hardware
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/
Audio (US) (file)
NounEdit
hardware (uncountable)
- 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.
- (informal) Equipment.
- military hardware
- 2003 June 6, “Mission to Mars”, in CBS_Rather:
- BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.
- 2009 May, Lee S. Langston, “plowing new ground.”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 131, number 5, page 40:
- It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring.
- 2011 January, “Swedish Sportster”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 1, page 27:
- Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive.
- (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, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40:
- Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
- (technology) Electronic equipment.
- Metal implements.
- The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
- (slang) A firearm.
- (slang) Medals or trophies.
- (Philippines) Short for hardware store.
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Amharic: ሃርድዌር (hardəwer)
TranslationsEdit
fixtures, equipment, tools and devices
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equipment
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material part of a computer
electronic equipment
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metal implements
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slang: firearm
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Further readingEdit
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hardware
- (anglicism, computing, electronics) hardware (physical equipment, as opposed to software)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of hardware (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hardware | hardwaret | |
| genitive | hardwaren | hardwarejen | |
| partitive | hardwarea | hardwareja | |
| illative | hardwareen | hardwareihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hardware | hardwaret | |
| accusative | nom. | hardware | hardwaret |
| gen. | hardwaren | ||
| genitive | hardwaren | hardwarejen hardwareinrare | |
| partitive | hardwarea | hardwareja | |
| inessive | hardwaressa | hardwareissa | |
| elative | hardwaresta | hardwareista | |
| illative | hardwareen | hardwareihin | |
| adessive | hardwarella | hardwareilla | |
| ablative | hardwarelta | hardwareilta | |
| allative | hardwarelle | hardwareille | |
| essive | hardwarena | hardwareina | |
| translative | hardwareksi | hardwareiksi | |
| instructive | — | hardwarein | |
| abessive | hardwaretta | hardwareitta | |
| comitative | — | hardwareineen | |
| Possessive forms of hardware (type nalle) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | hardwareni | hardwaremme |
| 2nd person | hardwaresi | hardwarenne |
| 3rd person | hardwarensa | |
SynonymsEdit
- laitteet, laitteisto
- hardis (slang)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English.
PronunciationEdit
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /aʁ.dwɛʁ/
Audio (file)
NounEdit
hardware m (uncountable)
Further readingEdit
- “hardware”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English hardware.
NounEdit
hardware m (uncountable)
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.
NounEdit
hardware m (plural hardwares)
- (computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.
NounEdit
hardware n (uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
declension of hardware (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) hardware | hardwareul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) hardware | hardwareului |
| vocative | hardwareule | |
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English hardware.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hardware m (plural hardwares)
Usage notesEdit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further readingEdit
- “hardware”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014