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Hardware is a general ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oterm for the physical artifacts of a technology. It may also mean the physical components of a computer system, in the form of computer hardware.

Hardware historically meant the metal parts and fittings that were used to make wooden products stronger, more functional, longer lasting and easier to fabricate or assemble.^{[citation needed]}

Modern hardware stores typically sell equipment such as keys, locks, hinges, latches, corners, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts, especially when they are made of metal.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Builders hardware
• Open source hardware
• Electronics

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• Oxford definition of Hardware
• Cambridge definition of Hardware
• Merriam Webster definition of Hardware
• Bartleby definition of Hardware
• WordNet definition of Armour
• Encyclopedia entry for Hardware as an industry

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