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What (who) is Checkerboard - definition
checkerboard
(checkerboards)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'chequerboard'
1.
A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess. (AM; in BRIT, use draughts board
, chessboard
)
, chessboard
)
N-COUNT
2.
A checkerboard pattern is made up of equal-sized squares of two different colours, usually black and white.
ADJ: ADJ n
Checkerboard
·noun A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
checkerboard
¦ noun US spelling of chequerboard.
Wikipedia
Checkerboard
A checkerboard (American English) or chequerboard (British English; see spelling differences) is a board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played. Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (8×8) of alternating dark and light color, typically green and buff (official tournaments), black and red (consumer commercial), or black and white (printed diagrams).
Examples of use of Checkerboard
1. Complicating the issue is that the area is a checkerboard of private, tribal and deeded land.
2. An aerial view of the Rio Grande Valley showed fields forming a checkerboard pattern, some inundated with water, others spared.
3. Compounding the difficulty for the military is the checkerboard pattern of Shiite and Sunni communities adjacent to one another.
4. Jurisdiction in the area is a complicated web of mineral and water rights underlying a checkerboard of tribal and nontribal holdings.
5. Meanwhile, a region that used to have a high rate of Ossetian–Georgian intermarriages is now a checkerboard of ethnically separated Georgian and Ossetian villages.