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hardware definition - telecom
The physical components, peripherals, and equipment that comprise a computer system, as compared to the logical system software programs and routines that run the computer and the application programs that support the tasks of end users. If you can break it with a hammer, it's hardware. Otherwise, it's software. See also firmware, grayware, and software.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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