hardware

[hard·ware]

As the word suggests, the word hardware usually refers to tools used to build something “wares” that are “hard.” It also is used to refer to the computer equipment that stores and uses “software,” the programs used in computing.

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Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

Noun
(computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system

Noun
major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile)

Noun
instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal


n.
Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.


Hardware

Hard"ware` , n. Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

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Usage Examples

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

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