tangible machine parts

Definitions

Physical components or hardware elements of a mechanical device that can be touched and manipulated.

The concrete, material parts of a machine as opposed to its software or abstract operational logic.

Examples

The factory floor was cluttered with various tangible machine parts that needed to be sorted and cataloged.

Engineers spent the entire afternoon inspecting the tangible machine parts to identify which components were causing the system failure.

Synonyms

physical hardware components concrete mechanical parts solid equipment pieces material device elements

Antonyms

intangible software code abstract digital processes virtual system instructions non-physical data structures