hardware

Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and 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.

Equipment.

military hardware

BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.

The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.

Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.

Electronic equipment.

Metal implements.

The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.