smartboard

noun

Etymology

From smart + board, originally a trademark.

  1. derived from *bʰers- — “tip, top
  2. inherited from *burdą — “board, plank; edge; table
  3. inherited from *bord
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as smartboard — “smart + board

Definitions

  1. interactive whiteboard

    • Smartboards sound like a great idea until you work out how much time and money they tie up. The boards themselves cost thousands of dollars and they must be linked to a computer and an LCD projector.
    • Smartboards make slides easier to display and manipulate, but teachers have been showing pictures to students for centuries.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smartboard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA