noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
computer hardware/equipment (= machines and equipment, not programs )
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a shop that sells computer equipment
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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They gain wide experience of different types of hardware and many varied programming languages.
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Two developments point the way to a very different hardware future.
military
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It has begun publishing an annual report providing for the first time a rough indication of how much military hardware Britain exports.
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Each acquisition of military hardware and each movement of military forces seems to fuel GreekTurkish suspicions and inflame tensions.
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There were also queries over the battle-worthiness of aircraft and other major military hardware due to maintenance backlogs and shortages of spares.
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What the officials of these states ignore is that the age of fetishism is over, and importing military hardware increases dependence.
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A first step must be to restrict any military hardware sales to defensive weapons.
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Modern technology appears in the form of military hardware and training of limited utility to the country.
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Meanwhile, Dudayev had ordered a general mobilization, and claimed a share of Soviet military hardware .
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Others are military hardware enthusiasts whose zest for detail has been rewarded with a high-profile job.
necessary
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Both components will fit directly on to the board without any necessary extra hardware being required.
new
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But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
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The enhancements include support for new hardware , new printers and functional enhancements, which can be added without reinstalling 3.2.0.
other
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There were also queries over the battle-worthiness of aircraft and other major military hardware due to maintenance backlogs and shortages of spares.
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However the chips on some machines may be located under disk drives or power supplies or other lumps of hardware .
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Being mostly upright, plants can conceal filter tubes, airlines, heater wires and other hardware .
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The same is true of the other hardware manufacturers, with varying degrees of modification.
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UniDirect hopes to duplicate the formula with other hardware vendors.
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The libraries run initially on networks of Sparcstations and are being ported to other hardware .
special
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It runs well on all graphics adapter types and has no special hardware requirements.
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Another example of special hardware is Texas Instruments' multiprocessor Odyssey Board.
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Unlike early game machine ports, these three titles need no special hardware .
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business
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Next refused to comment on reports that it might abandon its hardware business altogether.
company
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Most of the top 10 hardware companies suffered from the recession.
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Many software and hardware companies enjoyed rapid expansion before the bubble burst and market growth slowed.
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Well, they replied, sometimes the hardware companies modify it.
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At first, Jobs conceived Next as a hardware company that would make computer workstations for scientists and educators.
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He began his career as a traveling salesman for a hardware company .
computer
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The decision he reached was that existing computer hardware was not sufficiently powerful to cope with the problem.
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Repairs to embassy buildings and the replacement of outdated computer hardware are said to be long overdue.
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Managers have probably sanctioned the purchase of computer hardware and software but have not involved themselves with their use.
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Berg had, but the computer hardware to manage such complex simulations was extremely expensive and the existing software was primitive.
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As part of this process computer hardware requirements at Police Headquarters to assist with enforcement policy and personnel will be reviewed.
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But another factor is that instruction manuals that usually accompany new computer hardware and software are difficult to understand.
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The belief that it would be possible to maintain old computer hardware in operational order for use by future historians is utopian.
design
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They have been applied to evolving software, hardware designs , chemical structures, music, pictures and video.
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Instead of merely simulating parallelism, it is inherent in the hardware design .
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In any case, Next will sell its hardware design centre and factory in Fremont, California.
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These courses are also a preparation for work at the hardware/software interface and provide the potential for work in hardware design .
manufacturer
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It has important implications for hardware manufacturers too.
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The flocking rules were discovered by Craig Reynolds, a computer scientist working at Symbolics, a graphics hardware manufacturer .
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Old style hardware manufacturers have suffered.
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The same is true of the other hardware manufacturers , with varying degrees of modification.
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Using workflow, one hardware manufacturer managed to cut the time taken to process an invoice from six weeks to three days.
platform
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For reference purposes, multimedia implies decisions about support for specific hardware platforms .
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It will be the first time the leading graphics are available on the leading hardware platform .
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The choice of package, in turn, will determine what hardware platform is going to be most appropriate.
sale
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So they often set up subsidiaries, which earned maintenance revenues on the back of mainstream hardware sales .
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Analysts had expected hardware sales to rise as much as 18 percent to $ 12. 5 billion.
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A first step must be to restrict any military hardware sales to defensive weapons.
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He added, however, that hardware sales revenue this year would be fairly static as lower prices offset higher volume.
shop
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It comes in various sizes of large sheets as well as the small sizes available in hardware shops .
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Ant: The hardware shop round the corner, it was dead cheap.
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Enter the hardware shop and buy the wrench, exit and walk over to the fire hydrant.
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He made a number of further purchases at a confectioner's, a hardware shop and a luggage emporium.
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Stainex is available from Homebase and Co-op stores and good hardware shops , price £2.54.
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The local hardware shop proprietor was perhaps not a little alarmed when asked to supply 15 broomsticks before October 31st!
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Small cafes and restaurants ring the quayside; grocery and hardware shops are scattered around.
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They had bought the acid liquid from a hardware shop carefully choosing the most caustic brand available.
store
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She had two rooms above a hardware store in Venus.
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Rioters broke into hardware stores and armed themselves, demolished black businesses, and even robbed stores kept by white men.
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It was sub-Post Office, supermarket, hardware store , clothes shop, newsagent's and chemist's packed into one room.
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As it turns out, Heflin is not the brightest bulb in the hardware store .
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You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store .
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Not that it was a completely wasted trip, what with the hardware store right next door.
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He believes they were bought from a camping or hardware store in the week leading up to April 27.
system
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Both have a responsibility for design, the manager, of people systems , and the engineer, of hardware systems.
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We saw some of these tactics directed against us when we were a hardware systems company.
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However, just as hardware systems are dominated by engineering thinking, macro-systems are dominated by economic thinking.
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The wide range of options includes software development, hardware systems , and business and management computing.
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Agreed to evaluate hardware systems up to the value of £7k, possibly to tie in with image analysis. 11.
unix
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Users receive object code versions of SNAP-IX pre-built for their chosen Unix hardware , along with services and support.
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What's on offer will include information on Unix hardware and software products, service providers, systems integrators and consulting organisations.
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The performance of graphical Windows programs should be enhanced by the Unix hardware .
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The innovation once focused around Unix hardware vendors is slipping towards the personal computer.
vendors
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A list of 80 plus independent software and hardware vendors also registered support.
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UniDirect hopes to duplicate the formula with other hardware vendors .
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The innovation once focused around Unix hardware vendors is slipping towards the personal computer.
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build
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The latter builds decisions into the hardware and software based on his knowledge of the limitations of the mechanisms.
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He also wants to spur engineers to build better hardware and encourage greater funding for its infrastructure.
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S.-\#built hardware if necessary.
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Manufacturers responded by building cheaper modem hardware , and the rest is history.
buy
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Sets of bars and rollers can be bought from hardware stores for the heaviest furniture and kitchen equipment.
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She was working hard because she had to pay off the loan she used to buy the hardware store.
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You also need brushes which you can buy from a hardware store.
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They can be bought at most large hardware stores and fixed by a handyman.
implement
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It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer's instruction set.
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Generally, this means implementing in hardware , though some implementations we mention at the end of this chapter are actually biological.
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Although conceptually clear, the method is not easy to implement with current hardware .
include
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What's on offer will include information on Unix hardware and software products, service providers, systems integrators and consulting organisations.
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The data backup and recovery includes all required hardware , software and associated maintenance.
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It apparently includes compilers, but hardware support is slim and they'd like better graphics.
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The enhancements include support for new hardware , new printers and functional enhancements, which can be added without reinstalling 3.2.0.
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The wide range of options includes software development, hardware systems, and business and management computing.
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Additional equipment includes communications hardware , scanners and a plotter.
install
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The new unit will offer services even where the customer has decided to install all non-IBM hardware .
provide
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Alternatively, countries such as Britain could provide space hardware or equipment for ground stations.
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Finally, the Workstation Auditing Module tracks equipment configuration, and also provides software and hardware inventory features.
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But Britain is likely to press for a deal under which its own industry provides hardware for the satellites.
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It uses Postscript as the transfer format, thus providing hardware independence.
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One of the goals of Whistler is to provide hardware and software with a single version of Windows to work with.
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Because of this close association between stacks and subroutine linkage, some computers provide hardware stacks to deal with subroutine calls and returns.
require
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Higher level upgrades require a hardware change accomplished via a module swap programme.
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These all required expensive hardware , and ate up huge gobs of memory.
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Some neural network implementations require this special-purpose hardware .
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Both films employ innovative computer-generated graphics that required staggering outlays in hardware .
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The data backup and recovery includes all required hardware , software and associated maintenance.
run
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Fortunately the process is explicitly parallel and were it to be run on multiprocessor hardware then there could be substantial speed-up.
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So Etak stopped making Navigators and instead opted to sell a software map which runs on hardware made by other firms.
sell
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It generates interest in Apple and it sells hardware .
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Tandem, like other hardware-based firms, now needed software expertise to sell its hardware.
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He also owned a shop on the main street, selling hardware and tinned foods and some garden produce.
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The pencils are sold in hardware and building supply stores.
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In any case, Next will sell its hardware design centre and factory in Fremont, California.
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Sears currently has four such stores that sell furniture, hardware , automotive parts and appliances.
supply
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The arrangement sprang out of Compaq winning a contract to supply hardware , which was used to manage the 1991 national elections.
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Hewlett-Packard Co., which is supplying the hardware to Ford, provides computers only to employees who need them for work.
use
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Participants will create and print a newsletter using IBM-compatible hardware and Xywrite and Ventura programmes.
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They can be used on Sega hardware but are half the price.
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The field could also be used to list all hardware on which the module is dependent for its operation.
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This is because astronomical observations using the hardware can take place only at certain times of the year.
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An important factor here will be the school librarian's experience of using the hardware and software.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The company has spent millions of dollars replacing outdated computer hardware .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A final requirement is switching hardware and software to move huge amounts of data effortlessly over such a complex network.
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All access devices need not be hardware based, moreover.
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Higher level upgrades require a hardware change accomplished via a module swap programme.
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It has begun publishing an annual report providing for the first time a rough indication of how much military hardware Britain exports.
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It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts.
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It may also be superseded because the hardware is replaced with hardware that is not compatible with the software. 3.
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These internal hardware additions are of course very machine-dependent, and those available vary considerably from manufacturer to manufacturer.
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Until now, the company has only licensed the technology for use in other firms' hardware and software.