motorboard
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The mount that holds the motor on a record player.
noun
A circuit board that controls one or more motors.
noun
An outboard motor.
Example Sentences
- "In order to align this receiver for I.F. the four wood screws holding the motorboard to the cabinet will have to be removed."
- "Home-made rubber washers act as shock absorbers and prevent vibrations of the motor from being transmitted to the motorboard and so reaching the pickup."
- "The fixed operating speeds of 33 1/3 and 45 rpm are selected by a sliding plate on the motorboard that shifts the neoprene belt to the required diameter of the motor shaft."
- "Each Motorboard is able to control six motors and to read in their sensory information."
- "For instance, employees were using computers powered by motorboard batteries and stocking shelves in the same way as they had done for the past 15 years."
- "This is the urban beach in a complexity of tide flows and appearances. I am a storm bath with a nervous motorboard."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin mōtorder. Middle English motour English motor Proto-Germanic *burdą Proto-West Germanic *bord Old English bord Middle English bord English board English motorboard From motor + board.