Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The main board of a computer, usually containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, and monitor and often having slots for accepting additional circuitry.
Wiktionary
- n. computer hardware the primary circuit board of a personal computer, containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and monitor, together with slots for other devices
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Electronics) The board containing the main circuits of an electronic device, especially computers. The term is used primarily in microcomputer literature, where it designates the board containing the main expansion bus, and usually also the cpu. On motherboards designed with an expansion bus, often all of the circuits not contained on an expansion card are on the
motherboard .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the main circuit board for a computer
Etymologies
- mother + board (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Is there any other kind of test we can do to determine if the motherboard is non-functional (which seems rather likely at this point)?”
“Yes the ATOM motherboard is a touch less powerful than many dual and quad core processors, but when you use a Linux OS with a gig of ram the tiny ATOM will surprise you.”
“It was sad because the front audio jack for headphones also did it, thus the motherboard is flawed in design.”
“It didn’t help that I have to jumper my drives to run at SATA 1 speeds instead of SATA 2: my ASUS P4C800-E deluxe motherboard is old enough that it will not recognize a SATA 2 drive, and without a PCI-E slot there’s as far as I can tell no point in getting a new sata drive controller card.”
“It had a 2006-vintage Celeron D motherboard, which is more than fast enough for the jobs that the server has to perform.”
“They take care of things we cannot even consciously imagine -- consider our enteric nervous system, our digestive system's motherboard, which is more important to our constitution than the central nervous system, and yet so little of what it does or how it operates is known.”
“Many of these are attached to the motherboard, which is costly to replace.”
“She then proclamied that the motherboard was fried and that for $99 I could ship it (my expense aslo) a service tech would look at it and diagnose the problem; but stated in her opinion the motherboard was the most likely culprit.”
Dell Hell, continued (and continued and continued) « BuzzMachine
“I also strongly suspect that the motherboard is a straight intel chipset motherboard, rather than either an ATI or Nvidia chipset motherboard, since it would be cheaper for apple when negotiating price with intel.”
“My motherboard is a rampage 2 extreme with i7 920 running at 3. 7ghz my memory is ..”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘motherboard’.
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My Strange Kitchen
It seems that whenever I look away, new gadgets and devices and tools and dishes and utensils and ingredients are multiplying in my kitchen drawers and my cabinets.
tectonic plates, spoonbill, fork in the road, bowl haircut, whisk away, greasy spoon, melting pot, pan flute, platelets, spooning, pitchfork, jackknife and 101 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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boards
dashboard, buckboard, aboveboard, across-the-board, backboard, cupboard, overboard, washboard, sideboard, storyboard, keyboard, room and board and 79 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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A Mother of a List
Figurative 'mother' expressions.
mother-water, mother-liquor, mother-lye, mother-of-vinegar, mother-pearl, mother-of-pearl, mother-queen, motherboard, mothership, motherland, motherlode, motherload and 29 more...
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justchad's Words
chad, cow, cattle, book, books, flickr, amd, motherboard, desktop, movies, music, musical and 14 more...
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Technophiles "R" Us
applet, phish, podcast, blog, mouselexia, hot spot, adware, backbone, bot, cyberspace, emoticon, netiquette and 16 more...
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Technofancy
chipset, kernel, motherboard, network, bios, microprocessor, ram, rom, register, pipelining, smartphone, programmable and 24 more...
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computer hardware
case, cpu, fan, psu, power supply unit, video card, sound card, cdrom, dvdrom, motherboard, daughterboard, pci and 12 more...
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Computers
ajax, bit, byte, java, keyboard, c, html, flash, javascript, ram, rom, round robin and 5 more...
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