(n.) Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(2) The purpose of this paper is to outline procedures that will facilitate the integration of microcomputers into the clinical milieu by (a) identifying the reasons why and how these devices are used improperly; (b) proposing ways to correct these problems; (c) providing recommendations concerning the acquisition of major microcomputer hardware, software, and adaptations; and (d) providing an annotated list of resources for further information.
(3) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.
(4) All of the hardware complications were managed without undue difficulty, and although they were a source of consternation to the surgeon, they did not affect the patients adversely.
(5) The criteria of failure of pedicular instrumentation or "death" of an implant were defined as 1) screw bending, 2) screw breakage, 3) infection, 4) loosening of implants, 5) any rod or plate hardware problems, or 6) removal of hardware due to a neurologic complication.
(6) Survey data were collected from a sample of 298 occupational therapy department directors on (a) department demographics; (b) availability of micro- or macrocomputers; (c) types of hardware, software, and peripheral devices used; (d) major purposes and functions for computers; and (e) major factors regarding choice of computers and equipment or factors most influential in the nonuse of computers.
(7) In considering hardware, the optimum detector system for cone-beam tomography is a system that satisfies the data sufficiency condition for which the scanning trajectory intersects any plane passing through the reconstructed region of interest.
(8) To allow a thorough and scientific evaluation of group 3 level telefacsimile equipment, the task force identified ninety-six hardware features, which were grouped into nine broad criteria.
(9) The payments were made for ICT hardware, software, associated support services, marketing and company stationery.
(10) These requirements can now be satisfied by current graphics engine technology in combination with image-digitizing hardware.
(11) Google has tried hardware – even home hardware – before with a smart power meter (shut down in September 2011), the Nexus Q set-top box (never went on sale), and is currently trying to persuade people beyond geek boundaries to try its Google Glass headset.
(12) I want to make use of its virtual texture capability to create vast procedurally generated worlds, stuff I can't currently do with the hardware available to me now.
(13) Perhaps to an even greater extent in the future than has been true to date, the evolution of the computer as a useful tool will depend on software, rather than hardware, innovation.
(14) Loss-making hardware sales were allegedly being reported as software revenues.
(15) "The leader in developing this technology was Toshiba but it has recently given up developing the technology after failing to get it to work to a level that was considered acceptable … Amazon is right to differentiate its device, but it needs to do so in its [app] ecosystem not in hardware gimmicks."
(16) Feeding ‘Healthbook’ It is clear that Apple is looking at medical applications for its apps and hardware at the very least.
(17) The basic principle of frame assembly and application require that the wires are never bent to reach the support rings; instead, the Ilizarov hardware is used to build up to the wires from the rings.
(18) Such approaches, while often heroic and unusually creative in character, have limited the exportability of hardware or software products to the larger biomedical community.
(19) The hardware upgrades should improve performance considerably and keep the phone competitive with the latest Android and Windows Phone devices, but none will blow users away.
(20) Hardware and software enable on-line data acquisition, storage and real-time analysis with visual feedback of chosen parameters, while changes in other physiological variables are recorded and monitored.
Shader
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, shades.
Example Sentences:
(1) In theory, the six extra CUs give Sony's PS4 a 50% advantage in terms of raw shader performance (for example, lighting and other graphics effects) over the Xbox One.
(2) Sony’s PS4 has a 50% advantage in terms of raw shader performance It has already been noted that, on paper at least, the PS4 has a more powerful combination of processor and graphics capabilities than the Xbox One .
(3) Noting that it is not just pure pixel count that this effects, Morgan explained that the overall graphical quality was affected: “As well as cutting down on jagged edges, this reduces the amount of pixel shimmer we see in motion on complex shaders or thin geometry, with distant power lines, scaffolding and other elements with sub-pixel elements creating unwanted flickering on Xbox One,” he said.
(4) Deep brown discolouration in two teeth could not be adequately matched with the opaquer and shader pastes supplied with the kit.