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Hardware register
A hardware register is a small, named storage location inside a processor or digital device, holding bits the hardware reads or writes in a single cycle.
Hardware Removal
Hardware removal (implant removal, metalwork removal) is the surgical extraction of orthopedic plates, screws, and nails after fracture fixation, done for pain, infection, or broken hardware; evidence does not support routine removal of asymptomatic implants such as syndesmotic screws.
Hardware root of trust
A hardware root of trust is a minimally complex hardware element, or hardware with immutable software, implicitly trusted for security functions such as device identity, secure boot, and cryptography.
Hardware security module
A hardware security module (HSM) is a dedicated cryptographic processor that protects cryptographic keys in tamper-resistant hardware, performing encryption and signing so keys stay unexposed.
Hardware store
A hardware store, also called a hardware shop or DIY store, is a small retail shop selling tools, fasteners, paint, and plumbing supplies, distinguished from big-box home centers by carrying little or no lumber.
Hardware virtualization
Hardware virtualization: CPU/ISA features (Intel VT-x, AMD-V, ARM Virtualization Extensions) supporting fully virtualized machines via root/non-root modes, VMCS/VMCB, EPT/NPT, and IOMMU; from IBM System/370 (1972) to x86 extensions (2005-2008).
Hardware-aware neural architecture search
Hardware-aware neural architecture search (HW-NAS) is a machine learning method that searches for neural network architectures while including hardware metrics such as latency, energy, or memory footprint in the objective.
Hardware-efficient ansatz
A hardware-efficient ansatz (HEA) is a parameterized quantum circuit using only gates and qubit connections native to the target device, proposed by Kandala et al. in 2017 for VQE.
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
Hardware-in-the-loop simulation, also known as HIL or HWIL, is a testing technique in which a real controller is connected to a real-time simulator of the physical system.
Hardware-in-the-loop training
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) training is a testing method where real hardware, such as an autonomous vehicle's onboard computer, runs against a simulated environment on separate computing hardware.
Hardware-vendor open model strategy
Hardware-vendor open model strategy is the practice, prominent by 2026, of chipmakers such as AMD and NVIDIA publishing open-weight AI models to sell hardware rather than monetize the models.
Hardware/software co-design
Hardware/software co-design is a methodology, emerging in the early 1990s, in which hardware and software are designed concurrently to jointly optimize performance, power, cost, and reliability, as in Google's TPUs.
Hardwell
Hardwell, stage name of Dutch DJ and producer Robbert van de Corput (born 1988, Breda), twice DJ Mag world #1 (2013, 2014), Revealed Recordings founder, known for big room hits like Spaceman and his 2022 techno comeback album REBELS NEVER DIE.
Hardwick Hall
Hardwick Hall is a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house in Derbyshire, England, built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, and renowned for its huge windows and tapestries.
Hardwired... to Self-Destruct
Hardwired... to Self-Destruct is Metallica's tenth studio album, a double album released November 18, 2016 on Blackened Recordings, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 and the first Metallica album without Kirk Hammett songwriting credits.
Hardwood
Hardwood: wood of angiosperm (broadleaf, flowering) trees, as opposed to softwood from conifers. Defined by vessel elements (pores), not hardness; balsa is a hardwood. Used for flooring, furniture; stores carbon.
Hardy (singer)
Hardy is the stage name of Michael Wilson Hardy, an American country singer and songwriter from Philadelphia, Mississippi whose music ranges from radio country into Southern and heavy rock.
Hardy Bucks
Hardy Bucks: Irish mockumentary comedy series (also The Hardy Bucks) about slackers in fictional Castletown, Co. Mayo; YouTube webisodes that won RTÉ Storyland 2009, ran four RTÉ Two seasons 2010-2018, a 2013 film, and a confirmed 2026 revival.
Hardy Cross
Hardy Cross (1885–1959) was an American structural engineer who created the moment distribution method for analyzing statically indeterminate frames and pipe networks, teaching at Illinois and Yale.
Hardy Cross method
The Hardy Cross method is an iterative technique for computing flows in closed-loop pipe networks, introduced in 1936 by Hardy Cross of the University of Illinois.
Hardy garden ferns
Hardy garden ferns are fern species that survive frosts outdoors without protection, returning each spring from crowns or rhizomes; most prefer shade and moist, humus-rich soil.
Hardy inequality
The Hardy inequality is a result in analysis bounding averaged sequences or functions by a constant times the original, introduced by G. H. Hardy in 1920.
Hardy kiwi (Actinidia arguta) extract
Hardy kiwi (Actinidia arguta) extract, or kiwiberry concentrate, is a fruit-derived food ingredient notified to FDA as GRAS (GRN 215, Efficas, 2006–2007); raw fruit shows IgE cross-reactivity, heat processing reduces it.
Hardy Krüger
Hardy Krüger (Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger, 1928–2022), German actor and author of Junge Adler, The One That Got Away, Hatari!, Barry Lyndon, and A Bridge Too Far; father of Hardy Krüger Jr., distinct from the writer Hardy Crueger.
Hardy Pemhiwa
Hardy Pemhiwa is a technology executive serving as President and Group CEO of Cassava Technologies, a UK-headquartered pan-African digital infrastructure group, after six years leading Econet.
Hardy Son & Baker
Hardy Son & Baker is an independent British production company founded in 2012 by actor Tom Hardy and producer Dean Baker, best known for the drama Taboo.
Hardy space
The Hardy space H^p, also called a Hardy class, is a space of analytic functions with bounded integral means, introduced by G. H. Hardy in 1915.
Hardy W. Trolander
Hardy Wilcox Trolander (1921–2013) was an American engineer who co-founded the Yellow Springs Instrument Company in Ohio and led it for nearly 40 years, commercializing the world's first biosensor.
Hardy–Littlewood circle method
The Hardy–Littlewood circle method is an analytic number theory technique for counting integer representations as sums of powers or primes, arising from Hardy and Ramanujan's 1917 partition work.
Hardy–Littlewood conjecture
The Hardy–Littlewood conjecture, made by G. H. Hardy and John E. Littlewood in 1923, predicts how often patterns of primes occur and generalizes the twin prime conjecture.