Noun

(uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements.

* 1924 , HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey , p. 97:

Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age [...].

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(uncountable) Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill.

* 2011 , "Bhimsen Joshi", The Economist , 3 Feb 2011:

Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique .

(label) a method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge.

* 2011 , Paul Lewis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian , 16 Mar 2011:

They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.

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.