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Hard Bounce: Message sent to an invalid, closed or nonexistent email account.

Hardware Manufacturer: Company that manufactures game systems (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft).

Hardware: These are the physical items including your computer and floppy discs.

Hardship Withdrawal: A hardship withdrawal, also known as a hardship distribution, occurs when you take money out of your 401(k) or other qualified retirement savings plan to cover pressing financial needs. You . . . View Full Definition

Hardwood: Term for trees that have broad leaves (like oak, maple, ash, beech and walnut). Does not correlate to the actual hardness of the wood.

Hardwoods: Term applied to dicot trees, as opposed to softwoods, a term applied to gymnosperms.

Hardy-Weinberg Law: Law that states that the frequencies of genotypes in a population at a locus are determined by random mating and allele frequency

Hardy: The origin of this eaux-de-vie that makes this Cognac rare and excellent dates back to the 1870s

Hardpan: Very firm, unyielding ground (many times bare)

Hardness Tests: Tests to measure the hardness of metals.