hardware

1. (informal) Equipment.Examples: "military hardware"; "BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions."; "It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring."informaluncountable

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

3. (technology) Electronic equipment.uncountable

4. (slang) A firearm.slanguncountable

5. (slang) Medals or trophies.slanguncountable

6. (Philippines) Ellipsis of hardware store.Philippinesabbreviationalt-ofellipsisuncountable