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springboard

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spring⋅board

[spring-bawrd, -bohrd]
–noun
1. a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
2. a flexible board used as a takeoff in vaulting, tumbling, etc., to increase the height of leaps.
3. something that supplies the impetus or conditions for a beginning, change, or progress; a point of departure: a lecture to serve as a springboard for a series of seminars.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
4. to impel or launch on or as if on a springboard.

Origin:
1865–70; spring + board
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diving board  
n.  A flexible board from which a dive may be executed, secured at one end and projecting over water at the other. Also called springboard.
spring·board   (sprĭng'bôrd', -bōrd')   
n.  
  1. Sports

    1. A flexible board mounted on a fulcrum with one end secured, used by gymnasts to gain momentum, as in vaulting.

    2. See diving board.

  2. Something that helps to launch a career or activity.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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