meaning of hardware

1. Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.
2. hardware The physical, touchable, material parts of a computer or other system. The term is used to distinguish these fixed parts of a system from the more changable software or data components which it executes, stores, or carries. Computer hardware typically consists chiefly of electronic devices CPU, memory, display with some electromechanical parts keyboard, printer, disk drives, tape drives, loudspeakers for input, output, and storage, though completely non-electronic mechanical, electromechanical, hydraulic, biological computers have also been conceived of and built. See also firmware, wetware.
3. computer science the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system

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