Hardware

Quick meaning: Hardware is a noun meaning (informal) Equipment.

Meaning

(informal) Equipment.

More Meanings

1. (technology) Electronic equipment.
2. Metal implements.
3. (Philippines) Ellipsis of hardware store.
4. 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.
5. (computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc.
6. (slang) A firearm.
7. (slang) Medals or trophies.

Example Sentences

military hardware

The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.

Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.

He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.

Synonyms for hardware

Depending on context, synonyms include ironware.

Antonyms for hardware

Common opposites include software.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ironware, machinery, apparatus, deployment, device, materiel.

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