different between hardware vs transportability

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

transport +? -ability

Noun

transportability (countable and uncountable, plural transportabilities)

1. (communication) The quality of equipment, devices, systems, and associated hardware that permits their being moved from one location to another to interconnect with locally available complementary equipment, devices, systems, associated hardware, or other complementary facilities.
2. (military) The capability of materiel to be moved by towing, self-propulsion, or carrier via any means, such as railways, highways, waterways, pipelines, oceans, and airways.