Hardware vs Hardwired - What's the difference?
hardware | hardwired |
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.
(electronics) Designed to perform a specific task.
(electronic communications) Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
(computing) Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example.)
Not changeable.
In humans and animals, genetically determined, instinctive behavior, as opposed to learned behavior.
As a noun hardware
is hardware.As an adjective hardwired is
(electronics) designed to perform a specific task.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.