PC card

American  

noun

1. a small, removable, externally accessible circuit board housing a device, as a modem or disk drive, and conforming to the PCMCIA standard: used especially for laptop computers.

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Example Sentences

"Time after time, I'd go into meetings, and they'd say, 'You can't do a device like this without a PC card slot or a spreadsheet or whatever,'" she recalls.

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Hardware is catching up to this hybrid model; Nokia recently announced a PC card offering both Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity.

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It's custom-made for notebook users who can slide it into a PC card slot for updates.

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In place of the old PC card slot, there's a 34mm ExpressCard/34 slot.

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The tiny touchscreen PDA is really a PC card, the kind that can slide into the side of portables.

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