英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 hardware; equivalent to hard +‎ -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/

名詞

hardware (uncountable)

1. Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, 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

   • 2003 June 6, “Mission to Mars”, in CBS_Rather:

     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.

   • 2009 May, Lee S. Langston, “plowing new ground.”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 131, number 5, page 40:

     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.

   • 2011 January, “Swedish Sportster”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 1, page 27:

     Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive.

3. (computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc.

   Coordinate term: software

   • 1952, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40:

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

4. (technology) Electronic equipment.
5. Metal implements.

   The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.

6. (slang) A firearm.
7. (slang) Medals or trophies.
8. (Philippines) Ellipsis of hardware store.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Amharic: ሃርድዌር (hardəwer)

Further reading

• hardware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia