Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cardware

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: card-ware
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of postcardware.

Uncountable

noun

The software and hardware supporting a smart card system.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Two of the programs are "cardware" — the authors would be pleased to receive just a postcard."
"Other forms of freeware/shareware are cardware/postcardware/emailware - instead of paying, you send the programmer a card or an email saying thanks."
"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 […]"

Etymology

From card + -ware.

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

postcardware

Questions

What does cardware mean?: Synonym of postcardware.
Where does cardware come from?: From card + -ware.

How to pronounce cardware

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