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

Danish: udstyr n, isenkram n
Finnish: rakennustarvikkeet pl
German: Eisenwaren (de) f pl
Greek: δομικά υλικά n pl ‎(domiká yliká)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jernvare m, f

Nynorsk: jarnvare f, jernvare f

Romanian: echipament (ro) n, componente fizice f pl, componente materiale f pl
Serbo-Croatian: sklopovlje (sh), čvrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina

equipment

Finnish: kalusto (fi)

material part of a computer

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bengali: হার্ডওয়্যার ‎(harḑ-owar)
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, maskinel n, isenkram (slang)
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
Irish: crua-earraí m pl

Italian: hardware (it) m
Japanese: ハードウェア (ja) ‎(hādou~ea), ハード (ja) ‎(hādo)
Korean: 하드웨어 (ko) ‎(hadeuweeo), 굳은모 ‎(gudeunmo)
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
Swedish: hårdvara (sv) c, maskinvara c
Turkish: donanım (tr)

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: maskine (da)r pl, maskinel 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

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 kinkalerías)
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: våben (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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