Definizione monolingua

hardware

hardware (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. (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: Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer. — Binary Arithmetic, R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.
3. (technology) Electronic equipment.
4. Metal implements.
5. (slang) A firearm.

Definizione dizionario hardware

	hardware
	The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification
	The physical components of a computer system, including any peripheral equipment such as printers, modems, and mouse devices.

armamenti

attrezzi

ferramenta

macchine

sistemi

Altri significati:

Electronic equipment

(technology) Electronic equipment.

Firearm

Metal implements.

(computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.

Firearm.

hardware (esp. computer)

Metal implements

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.

The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification.

Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general purpose construction and repair of a structure or object