Hardware vs Physical - What's the difference?
hardware | physical |
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.
Having to do with the body.
Having to do with the material world.
* John Stuart Mill
* Macaulay
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
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Involving bodily force.
Having to do with physics.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Michael Riordan, title=Tackling Infinity
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(obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.
* Sir T. North
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between hardware and physical
is that hardware is hardware while physical is physical examination.As an adjective physical is
having to do with the body.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
* (wikipedia) ----physical
English
(wikipedia physical)Adjective
(en adjective)- Labour, in the physical world, is employed in putting objects in motion.
- A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.
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- Physical herbs.
- Is Brutus sick? and is it physical / To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours / Of the dank morning?