breadboard

plural breadboards · alternative bread board

1. A cutting board, especially for cutting bread.
2. A pull-out cutting board underneath a counter, found in many kitchens.

   One way or the other, it was always back to Mother's breadboard on Monday.

   1992 June 21, “The Breadboard Ornithopter”, in The New York Times

3. businessA device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs. Both solder and solderless versions are available; the solderless type are easily reusable.

   If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.

   2011 August 2, Keith Brindley, Starting Electronics, page 18

present singular third person breadboards · participle present breadboarding · participle past breadboarded · past breadboarded · alternative bread board

1. transitiveTo set up (an electronic device) on a breadboard.

   If the breadboarded circuit operates incorrectly or erratically, try relocating some of the components.

   1990, Delton T. Horn, 49 electronic 6-volt projects, page 9

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   There are many commercial breadboarding systems, but almost all of them are designed to facilitate the breadboarding of digital systems, where noise immunities are hundreds of millivolts or more.

   1998, Jim Williams, The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design, page 114