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plugboard
[ pluhg-bawrd, -bohrd ]
noun
- Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- 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
- another name for patch board
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Word History and Origins
Origin of plugboard1
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Example Sentences
In most models, there’s also a plugboard at one end.
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If you tinker with these, you might work out that the rotors and plugboard link up the letter keys and the indicators.
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Instead of a plugboard, it had four rotors with unusual rotation patterns.
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