Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The main printed circuit board in a complex electronic device, such as a personal computer, usually containing the central processing unit, the main system memory, and other components essential to the device's operation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Electronics) The board containing the main circuits of an electronic device, especially computers. The term is used primarily in microcomputer literature, where it designates the board containing the main expansion bus, and usually also the cpu. On motherboards designed with an expansion bus, often all of the circuits not contained on an expansion card are on the
motherboard .
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- noun computer hardware the primary
circuit board of apersonal computer , containing thecircuitry for thecentral processing unit ,keyboard ,mouse andmonitor , together withslots for otherdevices
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the main circuit board for a computer
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Examples
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Yes the ATOM motherboard is a touch less powerful than many dual and quad core processors, but when you use a Linux OS with a gig of ram the tiny ATOM will surprise you.
Mini-Laptops Fuel PC Sales Growth - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Is there any other kind of test we can do to determine if the motherboard is non-functional (which seems rather likely at this point)?
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It was sad because the front audio jack for headphones also did it, thus the motherboard is flawed in design.
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It didn’t help that I have to jumper my drives to run at SATA 1 speeds instead of SATA 2: my ASUS P4C800-E deluxe motherboard is old enough that it will not recognize a SATA 2 drive, and without a PCI-E slot there’s as far as I can tell no point in getting a new sata drive controller card.
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It had a 2006-vintage Celeron D motherboard, which is more than fast enough for the jobs that the server has to perform.
MythTV and Me 2009
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Many of these are attached to the motherboard, which is costly to replace.
Check The Ports Before Buying A Used Laptop | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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Many of these are attached to the motherboard, which is costly to replace.
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They take care of things we cannot even consciously imagine -- consider our enteric nervous system, our digestive system's motherboard, which is more important to our constitution than the central nervous system, and yet so little of what it does or how it operates is known.
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Many of these are attached to the motherboard, which is costly to replace.
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Many of these are attached to the motherboard, which is costly to replace.
Check The Ports Before Buying A Used Laptop | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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