English

Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation|UK) IPA|/�h��d�w��/, SAMPA|/"hA:d%wE@/
(General American|US) IPA|/�h�ɹd�w��/, SAMPA|/"hArd%wE@`/
audio|en-us-hardware.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
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1. Metal implements.
2. Firearm.
3. Electronic equipment.
4. The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.

#* 1952: Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer. — Binary Arithmetic, R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.

1. fixture|Fixtures, equipment, tool|tools and device|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.

Related terms
software
hardware store

Translations
trans-top|Metal implements
Croatian: željezarija f
Czech: železá�ství|železá�ské zboží n
Danish: udstyr n
Finnish: rautatavara
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Portuguese: ferragens f, quinquilharia f
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trans-top|Firearm
Czech: zbra� f
Danish: våben n
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Finnish: tuliase
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trans-top|Electronic equipment
Croatian: sklopovlje n, hardver m
Czech: hardware m
Danish: maskiner p, maskinel n
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Finnish: laitteisto
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trans-top|The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification
Croatian: sklopovlje n, hardver m
Czech: hardware m
Danish: hardware c, maskinel n, isenkram (slang)
Finnish: rauta (slang), laitteisto
French: matériel m
German: Hardware f
Irish: crua-earraí m pl
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Japanese: ������ (h�dowea), ��� (h�do)
Norwegian: maskinvare m
Portuguese: hardware m
Serbian: sklopovlje, �vrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina
Sindhi: SDchar|ڳڻپ��گر�
Swedish: hårdvara c
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trans-top|Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general purpose construction and repair of a structure or object
Danish: udstyr n, isenkram n
German: Eisenwaren f pl
Serbian: sklopovlje, �vrstovlje, tvrdovlje, strojevina, tvrdotvorina
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Catalan: maquinari m
ttbc|Chinese: 硬件 (yìngjiàn), 硬� (yìngt�) (Taiwan)
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ttbc|Persian: �ر��ا�زار (narmafzar)
ttbc|Korean: 기��� (gigyeseolbi)
ttbc|Polish: sprz�t
ttbc|Turkish: donanım

See also
w:Hardware|Wikipedia article on hardware

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