Hardware

Hardware may refer to:

Technology

Computing and electronics

• Computer hardware, physical parts of a computer
• Digital electronics, electronics that operate on digital signals
• Electronic component, device in an electronic system used to affect electrons, usually industrial products
• Electronic hardware, interconnected electronic components which perform analog or logic operations
• Networking hardware, devices that enable use of a computer network
• Hardware acceleration, the speedup of computing tasks by performing them in customized hardware rather than software

Other technologies

• Household hardware, equipment used for home repair and other work, such as fasteners, wire, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, utensils, and machine parts
  • Builders hardware, metal hardware for building fixtures, such as hinges and latches
• Hardware (development cooperation), in technology transfer
• Drum hardware, used to tension, position, and support the instruments
• Military technology, application of technology to warfare
• Music hardware, devices other than instruments to create music

Entertainment

• Hardware (album), by the heavy metal band Krokus
• Hardware (band), consisting of Bootsy Collins, Buddy Miles, and Stevie Salas
• Hardware (comics), a character from Milestone Comics
• Hardware (film), a 1990 film
• Hardware (TV series), a British situation comedy
• Hardware: Online Arena, a 2002 video game
• "Hardware", a 1987 science fiction story by Robert Silverberg

Other uses

• Hardware, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia

See also

• Hardware architecture, the identification of a system's physical components and their interrelationships
• Hardware engineering, or computer engineering
• Hardware store, a business which sells household hardware
• Materiel, equipment or hardware, and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management
• Medals
• Trophies
• All pages with titles containing hardware