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hardware
English
Etymology
From hard +? -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??d?w??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??d?w??/
Noun
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
- (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.
- 1952, "Binary Arithmetic", R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.
- (technology) Electronic equipment.
- Metal implements.
- (slang) A firearm.
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Amharic: ????? (hard?wer)
Translations
Further reading
- hardware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From English
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /a?.dw??/
Noun
hardware m (uncountable)
- (computing) hardware
- Synonym: matériel
Further reading
- “hardware” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English hardware.
Noun
hardware m (uncountable)
- (Jersey, computing) hardware
Portuguese
Etymology
From English hardware.
Noun
hardware m (plural hardwares)
- (computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English hardware.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xa?dwe?/, [?xa?.ð?we?]
- IPA(key): /?xarwe?/, [?xa.rwe?]
- IPA(key): /?xa??we?/, [?xa?.??we?]
Noun
hardware m (plural hardwares)
- (computing) hardware
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portation
English
Etymology 1
Noun
portation (uncountable)
- (chiefly in combination) The act of carrying or transporting something; transportation.
Etymology 2
port +? -ation
Noun
portation (uncountable)
- (computing) The act of porting software between hardware or operating system platforms.
portation From the web:
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