whiteboard

white·board

W0152500 (wīt,′bôrd′, hwīt′-)n. A panel covered with white, glossy plastic for writing on with erasable markers. Also called dry erase board.

[white + (black)board.]

whiteboard

(ˈwaɪtˌbɔːd) n1. (Education) a shiny white surface that can be wiped clean after being used for writing or drawing on, used esp in teaching2. (Computer Science) a large screen used to project computer images to a group of people

white•board

(ˈʰwaɪtˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd, ˈwaɪt-)
n. a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard. [1980–85]

Translations

白色书写板

whiteboard

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whiteboard

(1) An alternative to a blackboard for presentations that uses a white drawing area and ink pens instead of chalk. The glossy surface of the whiteboard allows it to be erased.

(2) An "interactive whiteboard" is the electronic equivalent of the physical whiteboard and may be software in a user's computer or a stand-alone unit. It allows users in remote locations to simultaneously view a running application or view someone's drawings on screen. Whiteboards may or may not provide application sharing, in which two or more people are actually working in the same application at the same time (see application sharing).

A Whiteboard Application

In this example, two people are collaborating by annotating an illustration that one of them pasted into this whiteboard application. They are working in the whiteboard, not the drawing program used to create the illustration.

Stand-Alone Units

Whiteboards such as this earlier LiveBoard from Xerox subsidiary, LiveWorks, Inc. allow simultaneous viewing of the application. The exceptionally large screens can be viewed close up and at wide angles. (Images courtesy of Palo Alto Research Center; Brian Tramontana, photographer.)

Stand-Alone Units

Whiteboards such as this earlier LiveBoard from Xerox subsidiary, LiveWorks, Inc. allow simultaneous viewing of the application. The exceptionally large screens can be viewed close up and at wide angles. (Images courtesy of Palo Alto Research Center; Brian Tramontana, photographer.)

whiteboard

noun A glossy white surface on which one uses non-permanent markers to share ideas in meetings, classrooms and work environments. The term has been extended to mean any interactive collaboration, including the use of a virtual whiteboard by multiple participants in various parts of the world during videoconferencing.
verb To share ideas and interact with others, as if a whiteboard were being used, to list participants’ ideas and to facilitate dialogue, as in “Let’s whiteboard this proposal.”