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plug⋅board

[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.

Origin:
1885–90; plug + board
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plug board  
n.  
  1. A control panel or wiring panel.

  2. A removable panel in a computing device that may be rewired at will to sort data by a prescribed pattern.

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