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hardware acceleration

hardware acceleration noun: usage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software, as it will be more performant.

Noun

hardware acceleration (uncountable)

  1. Usage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software, as it will be more performant.

Questions about hardware acceleration

What does hardware acceleration mean?
Hardware acceleration means usage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software, as it will be more performant.
What part of speech is hardware acceleration?
Hardware acceleration is a noun.

Words near hardware acceleration in the dictionary

  1. hardvapour
  2. hardveld
  3. hardveldt
  4. hardwall
  5. hardware
  6. hardware acceleration
  7. hardware cloth
  8. hardware cloths
  9. hardware description language
  10. hardware description languages
  11. hardware disease

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