Breadboard

Quick meaning: Breadboard is a noun meaning A cutting board, especially for cutting bread.

Meaning

A cutting board, especially for cutting bread.

More Meanings

1. A pull-out cutting board underneath a counter, found in many kitchens.
2. (transitive) To set up (an electronic device) on a breadboard.
3. (electronics) A device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs. Both solder and solderless versions are available; the solderless type are easily reusable.

Example Sentences

One way or the other, it was always back to Mother's breadboard on Monday.

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

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.

If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.

Word Forms

• breadboards
• bread board
• breadboarding
• breadboarded

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