Meaning of hardware | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   uncountable
2. Equipment.
   informal, uncountable
3. The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
   uncountable
4. Electronic equipment.
   uncountable
5. Metal implements.
   uncountable
6. A firearm.
   slang, uncountable
7. Medals or trophies.
   slang, uncountable
8. Ellipsis of hardware store.
   Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable

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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.”

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