Hard or Hardness may refer to:
- Hardness, resistance of physical materials to change under force
- Hard water, water with a high mineral content
- NP-hard, a term used in Computational complexity theory
- Hard, Austria, a town in Austria
- Hard (Zurich), a quarter in Zürich
- Hard (tennis), a type of tennis court
- Hard (music festival), concerts and live events
- Hard, or hard-on, a slang term for an erection
- Hard (nautical), a firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water
- Hard (surname)
- Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, abbreviated H.A.R.D.
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Famous quotes containing the word hard:
“...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours away and here we are talking about the brain size of birds and bloodhounds and hunting in the woods. You can only attend to death for so long before the life force sucks you right in again.”
—Helen Prejean (b. 1940)
“An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“My Phillis hath prime-feathered flowers
That smile when she treads on them;
And Phillis hath a gallant flock
That leaps since she doth own them.
But Phillis hath so hard a heart”
—Thomas Lodge (1558?1625)
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