Hardware vs Component - What's the difference?
hardware | component |
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.
(informal) Equipment.
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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.
(technology) Electronic equipment.
Metal implements.
(slang) A firearm.
A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
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Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.
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As nouns the difference between hardware and component
is that hardware is hardware while component is component.hardware
English
Noun
(-)- He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware , so he went to the hardware store.
- military hardware
- Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
External links
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(wikipedia component)Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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