Whiteboard

Quick meaning: Whiteboard is a noun meaning (by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To use a whiteboard, to write on a writeboard
2. A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.

Example Sentences

Discussion turns to the station whiteboard, which even has its own Twitter page. It's been in place for a number of years and is located right in the middle of the concourse. It's used to provide service information, upcoming alterations and event advice. There is also a 'Chuckle of the Day'.

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.

Word Forms

• whiteboards
• whiteboarding
• whiteboarded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blackboard, board, slate, shale, chalkboard, wallboard.

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