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cardware

cardware noun: synonym of postcardware.

Noun

cardware (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of postcardware.
    • Two of the programs are "cardware" — the authors would be pleased to receive just a postcard.1994, Peter M. Ridge, Sound Blaster: The Official Book
    • Other forms of freeware/shareware are cardware/postcardware/emailware - instead of paying, you send the programmer a card or an email saying thanks.2005, James Moran, Victoria Hull, Brilliant ECDL, page 29
    Synonyms:
    postcardware
  2. The software and hardware supporting a smart card system.
    • Detailed experience from other economic sectors as well as some partial data for the health sector allows us to calculate a factor the cardware costs have to be multiplied with to get total costs […]1997, Laurens van den Broek, Annet J. Sikkel, Health Cards '97, page 95

Synonyms of cardware

Origin of cardware

From card + -ware.

Questions about cardware

What does cardware mean?
Cardware means synonym of postcardware.
What part of speech is cardware?
Cardware is a noun.

Words near cardware in the dictionary

  1. carduelid
  2. carduelids
  3. cardueline
  4. carduoid
  5. Cardus
  6. cardware
  7. Cardwell
  8. Cardwellian
  9. cardy
  10. care
  11. care a button

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