daughterboardn.
/ˈdɔːtəbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈdɔdərˌbɔrd/, /ˈdɑdərˌbɔrd/ Electronics.
A printed circuit board on which are mounted some of the (esp. optional or subsidiary) components of a microcomputer or other electronic device, and which is typically connected to a motherboard (motherboard n.); = daughter card n. at daughter n. Compounds 3.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > electronic component, circuitry
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1965 Electronics 6 Sept. 36/1 Nine daughterboards, each carrying 30 circuit packages, go on each side of a motherboard.
1971 Electr. & Electronics Abstr. 74 118/2 To allow each channel to have its own controls each per channel circuitry is located on one daughterboard mounted vertically on a computer size motherboard.
1980 Amer. Banker 11 June 8/1 Eight 16K ‘daughter boards’, each of which can be held in one's hand, make up a complete memory board.
1987 InfoWorld 9 Nov. 33 Onboard with the Intel 80386 processor is up to 8 megabytes of 32-bit dynamic RAM shoehorned onto a daughterboard using 1-megabyte chips.
2010 D. A. Cook Intermediate Robot Building (ed. 2) xvi. 362 You must remove the daughterboard to be able to adjust the frequency or brightness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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