pinboardn.
/ˈpɪnbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈpɪnˌbɔrd/ 1. A cork-covered board to which notices, memoranda, pictures, etc., may be pinned for display.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > noticeboard > types of
sheriff's posts1600
number board1857
pole-board1909
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1925 Washington Post 16 Mar. 1/5 Cork pin boards in both Philadelphia and Baltimore intrigued both Superintendent Ballou and Architect Harris.
1945 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-American 16 Sept. 18/1 D'ya know that pin-board I have up on the wall?
1964 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 13 Apr. 11 a/3 Predominating the inner sanctum decor there is a giant pinboard.
1987 J. Diski Rainforest iii. 36 Over her desk the pinboard was covered with postcards.
2000 Pract. Parenting Apr. 78/3 There's nothing like the sight of your 3-year-old's drawing stuck on your kitchen pinboard.
2. A panel having an array of identical electrical sockets each connected to some of a set of wires, so that inserting a conducting pin into any of the sockets makes an electrical connection between a specific pair or group of wires.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > electronic instruments > [noun] > control panel, desk, etc. > with array of sockets
pinboard1957
1957 Electronic Engin. 29 30 Problems are programmed by plugging step by step operations in columns on the pinboards, a column for each operation.
1966 R. K. Richards Electronic Digital Syst. ix. 553 Like a plugboard, a complete pinboard assembly with its pins can be removed from a system and saved for re-use while other pinboards..are used for the solution of other problems.
1985 Physics Teacher Feb. 91 His solution is a triggered generator which sends pulses down a long coaxial cable. The generator is cheap and is quickly put together on the pinboard of a Heathkit ET-3100 trainer.
1996 C. Jenkins in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 56/1 ARP offered the 2500 modular system, and from 1970 the 2600, a large semi-modular synth with a pin-board patchbay.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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