Hardware

Noun

• (informal) Equipment.

  "military hardware"

• Metal implements.
• Fixtures, equipment, 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."

• (technology) Electronic equipment.
• (computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
• (slang) A firearm.