Hardware may refer to:
Technology
Computing and electronics
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Electronic hardware, interconnected electronic components which perform analog or logic operations
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Digital electronics
Digital electronics is a field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them. It deals with the relationship between Binary number, binary inputs and outputs by passing electrical s ...
, electronics that operate on digital signals
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Computer hardware
Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random-access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case. It includes external devices ...
, physical parts of a computer
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Networking hardware, devices that enable use of a computer network
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Electronic component
An electronic component is any basic discrete electronic device or physical entity part of an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields. Electronic components are mostly industrial products, available in a singula ...
, device in an electronic system used to affect electrons, usually industrial products
Other technologies
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Household hardware, equipment used for home repair and other work, such as fasteners, wire, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, utensils, and machine parts
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Builders hardware, metal hardware for building fixtures, such as hinges and latches
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Hardware (development cooperation), in technology transfer
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Drum hardware, used to tension, position, and support the instruments
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Military technology
Military technology is the application of technology for use in warfare. It comprises the kinds of technology that are distinctly military in nature and not civilian in application, usually because they lack useful or legal civilian application ...
, application of technology to warfare
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Music hardware, devices other than instruments to create music
Entertainment
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''Hardware'' (Krokus album), 1981
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''Hardware'' (Billy Gibbons album), 2021
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Hardware (band), consisting of Bootsy Collins, Buddy Miles, and Stevie Salas
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Hardware (character), a character from ''Milestone Comics''
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''Hardware'' (film), a 1990 film
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''Hardware'' (TV series), a British situation comedy
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Hardware: Online Arena'', a 2002 video game
* "Hardware", a 1987 science fiction story by
Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American science fiction author and editor. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo Award, Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a SFWA Grand ...
Other uses
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Hardware, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia
See also
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Hardware acceleration, the speedup of computing tasks by performing them in customized hardware rather than software
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Hardware architecture, the identification of a system's physical components and their interrelationships
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Hardware engineering, or computer engineering
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Ware
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Open-source hardware
Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) consists of physical artifact (software development), artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by th ...
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Hardware store, a business which sells household hardware
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Materiel
Materiel or matériel (; ) is supplies, equipment, and weapons in military supply-chain management, and typically supplies and equipment in a commerce, commercial supply chain management, supply chain context.
Military
In a military context, ...
, equipment or hardware, and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management
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Medal
A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be in ...
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Trophies
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Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications.
The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...
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