hard
The term hard is used to describe anything that is permanent or physically exists. In contrast, the term soft refers to concepts, symbols and other intangible and changeable objects.
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- hard boot
Same as cold boot.
- hard bounce
When e-mailing, hard bounce is used to describe an e-mail that has bounced back to the sender undelivered without having been accepted by the recipient’s mail server. Compare with soft bounce.
- hard card
A hard disk drive and controller on an expansion card. Unlike most disk drives that are either external to the computer or fit in one of the disk drive bays, a hard card slips into an expansion slot. Hard cards are often faster than conventional disk drives, and easier to install. Their storage capacities, however, […]
- hard coded
Unchangeable. Hard-coded features are built into the hardware or software in such a way that they cannot be modified.
- hard copy
A printout of data stored in a computer. It is considered hard because it exists physically on paper, whereas a soft copy exists only electronically.