hardware

See also: Hardware

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

hard +‎ ware; attested since the mid-15th century.

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/
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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.
He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the 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, "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.
(technology) Electronic equipment.
Metal implements.
(slang) A firearm.

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

fixtures, equipment, tools and devices

Bulgarian: железария f (železarija)
Danish: isenkram n
Finnish: rakennustarvikkeet pl
Galician: soporte físico m
German: Eisenwaren (de) f pl
Greek: δομικά υλικά n pl (domiká yliká)
Latvian: aparatūra
Lithuanian: aparatūra

Norwegian:
Bokmål: jernvare m, f

Nynorsk: jarnvare f, jernvare f
Portuguese: equipamento (pt) m
Romanian: echipament (ro) n, componente fizice f pl, componente materiale f pl
Serbo-Croatian: sklopovlje (sh), čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina

equipment

Azeri: avadanlıq (az)
Bulgarian: оборудване (bg) n (oborudvane)
Danish: udstyr n
Finnish: kalusto (fi)

Indonesian: peralatan (id), perlengkapan (id)
Javanese: peralatan
Malay: peralatan, kelengkapan
Polish: sprzęt (pl) m

material part of a computer

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Azeri: aparat təminatı pl, avadanlıq sg
Belarusian: апаратнае забеспячэнне n (aparatnaje zabjespjačennje)
Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (harḑ-owar)
Bulgarian: хардуер (bg) m (harduer)
Catalan: maquinari (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 硬件 (ngaang⁶ gin⁶^-²)

Mandarin: 硬件 (zh) (yìngjiàn) (mainland China), 硬體 (zh), 硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ) (Taiwan), 硬設備, 硬设备 (yìngshèbèi) (mainland China)

Min Nan: 硬體 (zh-min-nan), 硬体 (ngē-thé, ngī-thé)
Czech: hardware (cs) m
Danish: hardware (da) c
Dutch: hardware (nl)
Esperanto: aparataro
Finnish: laitteisto (fi), hardware (fi); (slang) rauta (fi), hardis
French: matériel (fr) m
German: Hardware (de) f
Greek: υλισμικό (el) n (ylismikó)
Ido: hardwaro, aparataro
Indonesian: perangkat keras, peranti keras, peralatan
Irish: crua-earraí m pl

Italian: hardware (it) m
Japanese: ハードウェア (ja) (hādou~ea), ハード (ja) (hādo)
Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫꦤ꧀ꦠꦶ ꦏꦱꦂ (piranti kasar)
Korean: 하드웨어 (ko) (hadeuweeo), 굳은모 (gudeunmo)
Latvian: aparatūra
Lithuanian: aparatūra, techninė įranga (lt), aparatinė įranga
Malay: perkakasan (ms)
Maltese: ħardwer m
Norman: hardware m
Norwegian: maskinvare m
Polish: sprzęt (pl) m
Portuguese: hardware (pt) m
Romanian: hardware (ro) f, n, aparatură (ro) f, aparataj (ro) n
Russian: аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), хардве́р (ru) m (xardvér)
Scottish Gaelic: bathar-cruaidh m
Serbo-Croatian: čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina, sklopovlje (sh) n, hardver (sh) m, računalna sklopovska podrška f, strojna oprema f
Spanish: hardware (es) m, soporte físico m
Swedish: hårdvara (sv) c, maskinvara c
Turkish: donanım (tr)
Turkmen: apparat üpjünçiligi
Vietnamese: cương liệu (vi), phần cứng (vi), phần máy

electronic equipment

Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার (harḑ-owar)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 硬件 (ngaang⁶ gin⁶^-²)

Mandarin: 硬件 (zh) (yìngjiàn) (mainland China), 硬體 (zh), 硬体 (zh) (yìngtǐ) (Taiwan)

Min Nan: 硬體 (zh-min-nan), 硬体 (ngē-thé, ngī-thé)
Czech: hardware (cs) m
Danish: maskinel n, hardware n
Finnish: laitteisto (fi), elektroniikka (fi)

Greek: ηλεκτρονικός εξοπλισμός m (ilektronikós exoplismós)
Polish: sprzęt (pl) m
Romanian: hardware (ro) n, aparatură (ro) f
Russian: аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), хардве́р (ru) m (xardvér), обору́дование (ru) n (oborúdovanije)
Serbo-Croatian: sklopovlje (sh) n, hardver (sh) m
Sindhi: ڳڻپيوگري‎ (sd)
Turkish: donanım (tr)

metal implements

Bulgarian: железария f (železarija)
Czech: ^{(please verify)} železářské zboží n
Danish: udstyr n
Finnish: rautatavara
French: quincaillerie (fr) f
Greek: σιδηρικά n pl (sidiriká), είδη κιγκαλερίας n pl (eídi kigkalerías)

Manx: yiarnrey
Polish: artykuły metalowe pl
Portuguese: ferragens f pl
Serbo-Croatian: željezarija (sh) f
Sindhi: سامگري‎ (sâmagarī)
Spanish: fierros (es) m pl

slang: firearm

Czech: zbraň (cs) f
Danish: skydevåben (da) n
Finnish: tykki (fi)

French: arme à feu (fr) f
Greek: βαρύς στρατιωτικός εξοπλισμός m (varýs stratiotikós exoplismós)
Spanish: arma de fuego (es) f

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