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bread⋅board

[bred-bawrd, -bohrd]
–noun
1. a slab of wood on which dough is kneaded and bread is sliced.
2. Electronics. a circuit assembled on an insulating surface, often with solderless contacts, in which components can easily be replaced for circuit alteration and experimentation.
–verb (used with object)
3. Electronics. to construct (an experimental circuit) for the purpose of feasibility tests.

Origin:
1855–60; bread + board
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bread·board   (brěd'bôrd', -bōrd')   
n.  
  1. A board on which bread is sliced or dough is kneaded.

  2. An experimental model, especially of an electric circuit; a prototype.

  3. A thin, blank, often white board on which a prototype circuit with numerous connections for circuit elements is constructed.

tr.v.   bread·board·ed, bread·board·ing, bread·boards
To construct an experimental model of (an electric circuit, for example).
bread'board'ing n.
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