breadboard

English

A pull-out cutting board beneath a counter.

An electronic circuit breadboard.

Alternative forms

• bread board

Etymology

From bread +‎ board.

Noun

breadboard (plural breadboards)

1. A cutting board, especially for cutting bread.
2. A pull-out cutting board underneath a counter, found in many kitchens.
3. (electronics) A reusable solderless device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs.

Derived terms

• breadboarding

Translations

cutting board

• Dutch: broodplank (nl) f
• Finnish: leikkuulauta (fi), leipälauta (fi)
• German: Schneidebrett (de) n
• Irish: clár aráin m
• Italian: tagliere (it) m
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• Maori: papaparāoa, papa parāoa
• Spanish: tabla de cortar f
• Swedish: skärbräde (sv) n, skärbräda (sv) c
• Turkmen: aştagta

pull-out cutting board

• Finnish: leikkuulauta (fi)
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• Swedish: skärbräde (sv) n, skärbräda (sv) c

reusable solderless device

• Finnish: koekytkentälevy n
• German: Steckplatine f, Steckbrett n, Steckboard n, Protoboard n
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• Serbo-Croatian: protoploča
• Swedish: kopplingsplatta c, kopplingsdäck n

Verb

breadboard (third-person singular simple present breadboards, present participle breadboarding, simple past and past participle breadboarded)

1. (transitive) To set up (an electronic device) on a breadboard.
   • 1990, Delton T. Horn, 49 electronic 6-volt projects, page 9:

     If the breadboarded circuit operates incorrectly or erratically, try relocating some of the components.

   • 1998, Jim Williams, The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design, page 114:

     There are many commercial breadboarding systems, but almost all of them are designed to facilitate the breadboarding of digital systems, where noise immunities are hundreds of millivolts or more.