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plugboard

[pluhg-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

  1. Electricity.an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.

  2. Also called control panel.Computers.a removable panel containing manually wired electrical terminals into which plugs or pins are inserted: formerly used to control operation of peripheral equipment, as a keyboard.

plugboard

/ ˈʌɡˌɔː /

noun

  1. another name for patch board

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of plugboard1

First recorded in 1885–90; plug + board
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In most models, there’s also a plugboard at one end.

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If you tinker with these, you might work out that the rotors and plugboard link up the letter keys and the indicators.

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Instead of a plugboard, it had four rotors with unusual rotation patterns.

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