computer hardware

1. 1.

   (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system

   Synonymshardware

   Broadercomponent

   Narrowercentral processing unitmemoryschedulersequencerupgrade

   Part ofcomputer

   computer science

Questions about computer hardware

What does computer hardware mean?

computer hardware means "(computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system".

What is another word for computer hardware?

Close synonyms include hardware. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is computer hardware a common word?

computer hardware is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.