what is hardware ?

Answer 1

A part of a computer that you can hold and see as opposed to the software or programs that run inside it.

Answer 2

Hardware is the general term that is used to describe physical artifacts of a technology.

It can be equipment such as fasteners, keys, locks, hinges, latches, corners, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts, especially when they are made of metal. In the United States, hardware has been traditionally sold in hardware stores.

Though often used interchangeably to mean "hand tools," hardware historically referred to the metal bits that were used to make wooden products stronger, more functional, longer lasting and easier to fabricate/assemble than if they did not have the benefit of metal fittings.

In a looser sense, hardware can be major military equipment, or electronic equipment, or computer equipment.

In slang, the term refers to trophies and other physical representations of awards.
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Answer 3

Hardware is any of the components or peripherals inside a computer, like motherboard, hard drive, memory sticks, cd drives, power supplies etc. Software is the programs you load onto your hard drive. Software is usually downloaded off the internet or comes on a CD.

Answer 4

Basically anything in or attached to the computer, the motherboard, hard drive, graphic and sound card, etc. Things you can physically touch. Software is the programs, like virus protection, basically a complicated set of written instructions.

Answer 5

The physical components which make up a computer etc.

Answer 6

a collected amount of things or tools you use to work on certain objects or things. Thats the best way to describe it.

Answer 7

in what context? harware can be many things