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Fasteners vs Hardware - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fasteners and hardware

is that fasteners is plural of lang=en while hardware is 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.

fasteners

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Noun

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    hardware

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    Noun

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  • Fixtures]], equipment, tools and [[device, 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.
  • (informal) Equipment.
  • military hardware
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  • (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.
  • (technology) Electronic equipment.
  • Metal implements.
  • (slang) A firearm.