motherboard
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of mother + board. Attested since 1965.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmʌðɚˌbɔɹd/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]motherboard (plural motherboards)
- (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.
- 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 8:
- An electronics shop was selling ugly refurbished computers. They were small black and grey things with exposed motherboards and cracked cases.
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bengali: মাদারবোর্ড (madarbōrḍ)
- → Japanese: マザーボード (mazābōdo)
- → Chinese: 母板 (mǔbǎn) (calque)
- → Dutch: moederbord (calque)
- → Estonian: emaplaat (calque)
- → Finnish: emolevy (calque)
- → Icelandic: móðurborð (calque)
- → Irish: máthairchlár (calque)
- → Italian: scheda madre (calque)
- → Portuguese: placa-mãe (calque)
- → Russian: матери́нская пла́та (materínskaja pláta) (calque)
- → Ukrainian: матери́нська пла́та (materýnsʹka pláta) (calque)
Translations
[edit]primary circuit board of a computer
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References
[edit]- “motherboard”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English motherboard.
Noun
[edit]motherboard
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