whiteboard

See also: Whiteboard

English

Etymology

white +‎ board, modelled on blackboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪtbɔːd/

Noun

A blank whiteboard

whiteboard (plural whiteboards)

1. A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine

     Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board, which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.

2. (by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.

Derived terms

• whiteboard marker

Translations

large vertical writing area

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白板 (zh) (báibǎn)

• Cornish: bord gwynn m
• Czech: (any colour) tabule (cs) f, bílá tabule f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: valkotaulu
• French: (any colour) tableau (fr) m, tableau blanc (fr) m
• German: Tafel (de) f, Weißwandtafel f, Whiteboard (de) n
• Greek: λευκοπίνακας (el) m (lefkopínakas)
• Irish: clár bán m
• Italian: lavagna (it) f
• Japanese: 白板 (はくばん, hakuban), ホワイトボード (howaitobōdo)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Latvian: tāfele (lv) f (any color)
• Macedonian: бе́ла та́бла f (béla tábla)
• Maori: papamā
• Norman: blianche plianche f
• Portuguese: quadro branco m
• Quechua: pirqa qillqana
• Romanian: tablă (ro) f
• Russian: (any colour) доска́ (ru) f (doská), бе́лая доска́ f (bélaja doská)
• Spanish: (any colour) pizarra (es) f, pizarra blanca f
• Swedish: vit tavla c, skrivtavla c, whiteboard (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• blackboard
• chalkboard
• imageboard