hardware
Definitions
- Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, 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.
- Equipment.
- The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
- Electronic equipment.
- Metal implements.
- A firearm.
- Medals or trophies.
- Ellipsis of hardware store.
Equivalents
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Examples
“He needed a hammer⟳, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.”
“military hardware”
“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.”
“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.”
“Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase⟳ engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive.”
“Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.”
“The designers have⟳ put⟳ their logo on the hardware of this bag here.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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