hardware
nounEtymology
From Middle English hardware; equivalent to hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.
- inherited from hardware
Definitions
Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction…
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.
- He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.
Equipment.
- 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.
The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or…
The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc.
- Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
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Electronic equipment.
Metal implements.
- The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
A firearm.
Medals or trophies.
Ellipsis of hardware store.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at hardware. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at hardware. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at hardware
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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