circuit board

noun

Examples of circuit board in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The sensors and small circuit boards attached to the balloons help the balloons travel at a certain altitude and for a certain distance. Jessie Yeung, CNN, 26 June 2024 For the past two years, labor demand in manufacturing has exceeded that of other parts of the chip-making process, such as designing the circuit boards or packaging them after they are made, according to the local recruitment platform 104 Job Bank. Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024 The issue is caused by a faulty circuit board in the vehicle’s Occupant Detection System. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2024 For example, new technologies allow cell-phone circuit boards to be profitably processed in a clean facility, where all the rare earth minerals and precious metals are recovered for reuse in new electronic products. William McDonough, Scientific American, 1 July 2017 See all Example Sentences for circuit board 

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Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of circuit board was in 1948

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“Circuit board.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circuit%20board. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.

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