daughterboard, n. Electronics.
(ˈdɔːtəbɔːd)
Also daughter board.
[f. daughter n. + board n., after *motherboard n.]
A printed circuit board on which are mounted some of the (esp. optional or subsidiary) components of a microcomputer or other electronic device, and which may be connected to a motherboard.
| 1971 Electrical & Electronics Abstr. LXXIV. 118/2 To allow each channel to have its own controls each per channel circuitry is located on one daughterboard mounted vertically on a computer size motherboard. 1980 Amer. Banker 11 June 8/1 Eight 16K ‘daughter boards’, each of which can be held in one's hand, make up a complete memory board. 1986 New Scientist 6 Feb. 34/1 The main memory of the M-780..consists of one ‘mother’ board, with 32 ‘daughter’ boards mounted at right angles to it. 1987 InfoWorld 9 Nov. 33 Onboard with the Intel 80386 processor is up to 8 megabytes of 32-bit dynamic RAM shoehorned onto a daughterboard using 1-megabyte chips. |