Definitions for hardware

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hardware hard·ware

Spelling: [hahrd-wair]

IPA: /ˈhɑrdˌwɛər/

Hardware is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in hardware (aadehrrw).

Definitions for hardware

noun

1. metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
2. the mechanical equipment necessary for conducting an activity, usually distinguished from the theory and design that make the activity possible.
3. military weapons and combat equipment.
4. Slang. a weapon carried on one's person:
5. Computers. the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical devices comprising a computer system, as the CPU, disk drives, keyboard, or screen.

Origin of hardware

1505-15; 1955-60 for def 5; hard + ware¹

Examples for hardware

Midwest Fastener Corp Michigan-based company that supplies fasteners to the hardware store, home center, and industrial markets.

In other words, maybe the hardware was in place, but the software was not taking advantage of it.

"We're in back of Williamson's hardware place," replied Ned.

A Michigan-based company that supplies fasteners to the hardware store, home center, and industrial markets.

hardware was too high in price, and was no longer needed for clothing.

Not only in terms of the politics on the ground, but in terms of material and hardware.

In 1850, he left the trade in dry goods and took up that in hardware.

A plastic factory, a hardware supplier, and shipping–and-receiving giants like Fed-Ex and DHL are neighboring businesses.

"His hardware'd melt where I'D tell him to go," he declared.

But anything will do, except a grocery or a hardware store and places like that.