different between hardware vs renderer

English

Etymology

From hard +? -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??d?w??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??d?w??/

Noun

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. (informal) Equipment.

   military hardware
3. (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, "Binary Arithmetic", R.L. Michaelson, in The Incorporated Statistician, vol. 3, no. 1 (Feb. 1952), pp 35-40.

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

4. (technology) Electronic equipment.
5. Metal implements.
6. (slang) A firearm.

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Amharic: ????? (hard?wer)

Translations

Further reading

• hardware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a?.dw??/

Noun

hardware m (uncountable)

1. (computing) hardware

   Synonym: matériel

Further reading

• “hardware” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English hardware.

Noun

hardware m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey, computing) hardware

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hardware.

Noun

hardware m (plural hardwares)

1. (computing) hardware (parts of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hardware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa?dwe?/, [?xa?.ð?we?]

• IPA^(key): /?xarwe?/, [?xa.rwe?]

• IPA^(key): /?xa??we?/, [?xa?.??we?]

Noun

hardware m (plural hardwares)

1. (computing) hardware

English

Etymology

render +? -er

Noun

renderer (plural renderers)

1. One who, or that which, renders.
2. A vessel in which lard, tallow, etc., is rendered.
3. (computer graphics) A software or hardware process that generates a visual image from a model.

Translations

Anagrams

• rerender