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plugboard

[ pluhg-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun

  1. Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
  2. Also called control panel. Computers. a removable panel containing manually wired electrical terminals into which plugs or pins are inserted: formerly used to control operation of peripheral equipment, as a keyboard.


plugboard

/ ˈplʌɡˌbɔːd /

noun

  1. another name for patch board
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of plugboard1

First recorded in 1885–90; plug + board
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Example Sentences

In most models, there’s also a plugboard at one end.

If you tinker with these, you might work out that the rotors and plugboard link up the letter keys and the indicators.

Instead of a plugboard, it had four rotors with unusual rotation patterns.

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