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MAIN PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCB) FOR A COMPUTING DEVICE
PC motherboard; Mainboard; Systemboard; Motherboards; Mother board; Logic board; Logicboard; System board; Main logic board; Secondary logic board; PC motherboards; Integrated peripheral; PC motherboard form factor; Computer motherboard; Logic Board; Mother Board; Main board; Hardware board; Planar board
  • ISA]] cards and the lack of other built-in external interface connectors. Note the large [[AT keyboard]] connector at the back right is its only peripheral interface.
  • Dell Precision T3600 System Motherboard, used in professional CAD Workstations. Manufactured in 2012
  • A motherboard of a Vaio E series laptop (right)
  • A microATX motherboard with some faulty capacitors
  • Block diagram of an early 2000s motherboard, which supports many on-board peripheral functions as well as several expansion slots
  • Mainboard of a [[NeXTcube]] computer (1990) with microprocessor [[Motorola 68040]] operated at 25 [[MHz]] and a [[digital signal processor]] [[Motorola 56001]] at 25 MHz, which was directly accessible via a connector on the back of the casing.
  • The motherboard of a [[Samsung Galaxy SII]]; almost all functions of the device are integrated into a very small board
  • Motherboard for a personal desktop computer; showing the typical components and interfaces which are found on a motherboard. This model follows the Baby [[AT (form factor)]], used in many desktop PCs.

motherboard         
(motherboards)
In a computer, the motherboard is the main electronic circuit board to which the microchips that perform important functions are attached.
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motherboard         
<hardware> (mobo) The main printed circuit board in an electronic device, particularly a computer, which may contain sockets that accept additional boards ("daughter-boards"). In a personal computer, the motherboard contains the bus, the microprocessor, and integrated circuits used for controlling any built-in peripherals such as the keyboard, text and graphics display, serial ports and {parallel ports}, joystick, and mouse interfaces. (2000-08-10)
motherboard         
(also mainboard)
¦ noun Computing a printed circuit board containing the principal components of a microcomputer or other device, with connectors for other circuit boards to be slotted into.

Wikipedia

Motherboard

A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, MB, mboard, backplane board, base board, system board, mobo; or in Apple computers logic board) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals. Unlike a backplane, a motherboard usually contains significant sub-systems, such as the central processor, the chipset's input/output and memory controllers, interface connectors, and other components integrated for general use.

Motherboard means specifically a PCB with expansion capabilities. As the name suggests, this board is often referred to as the "mother" of all components attached to it, which often include peripherals, interface cards, and daughterboards: sound cards, video cards, network cards, host bus adapters, TV tuner cards, IEEE 1394 cards; and a variety of other custom components.

Similarly, the term mainboard describes a device with a single board and no additional expansions or capability, such as controlling boards in laser printers, television sets, washing machines, mobile phones, and other embedded systems with limited expansion abilities.

Pronunciation examples for motherboard
1. Your motherboard?
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2. Motherboard looked around the DC,
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3. processor mounted on the motherboard.
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4. Here's the motherboard and the daughterboard
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5. they be the motherboard, or whatever.
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Examples of use of motherboard
1. Chipsets are a collection of memory, input– output and other chips that connect the processor to the motherboard.
2. Your computer contains this shielding, from metal housings down to the little metal coverings soldered to your motherboard.
3. Major PC players like Asustek Computer Inc., also the world‘s top motherboard maker, said Vista might have warmed up the market but significant results have not been seen.
4. Gross margin, the percentage of sales left after subtracting manufacturing costs, was also hurt by sales of desktop integrated chips, products built into a computer‘s motherboard.
5. An inexpensive little component on a PC motherboard became a hot topic following Dell‘s announcement it was going to take a $300m hit as it replaced faulty capacitors on its Optiplex workstations manufactured from April 2003 to March 2004.