Flashboard

Quick meaning: Flashboard is a noun meaning (by extension) A board that controls the flow of any material.

Meaning

(by extension) A board that controls the flow of any material.

More Meanings

1. (physics) A sheet of material that is subjected to an electric pulse or flashover in order to produce plasma.
2. Any automated display that shows temporary information.
3. (education) An acrylic board used to display children's work in a school.
4. (education) A board for displaying language material in the classroom, used like a flashcard but potentially holding more information.
5. (US) A board placed temporarily upon a dam, river, stream, etc. (typically within a permanent frame) to raise the water above its usual level.
6. (historical) A device used in the 1920s for teaching typing skills which provided feedback on which key was pressed by lighting up the corresponding value.

Example Sentences

The plasma produced by the flashboard was mostly C⁺ and C⁺⁺.

A polyethylene sheet (flashboard) is attached on the anode (aluminum), which acts as the ion source.

A form of cheap open weir which has been commonly constructed in the West is the open wooden frame and flashboard weir.

There exists a trapezoidal groove in the bottom of each container and a flashboard fixed in feeding system which match the groove.

Word Forms

• flashboards

Related Words

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