bread·board
ˈbred-ˌbȯrd 
variants
or less commonly bread board
plural breadboards also bread boards
1
: a board designed for working dough or for cutting or serving bread
With towels around their middles and their hair tucked up, Grandma and Mary Alice rolled out endless pastry on big breadboards.—
Richard Peck
Richard PeckOn a large round breadboard beside Mrs. Plunkett there were several kinds of bread, which she cut very slowly …—William Trevor
William Trevor2
: a board on which mounted components are breadboarded
Yamakawa developed an ignition system to maximize efficiency while using the least amount of gasoline. He created it as a breadboard (an assembly of separate transistors, capacitors, and other electronic parts), but was unable to fuse them together on a chip before the money ran out.—Daniel McNeill et al.
Daniel McNeill et al.
breadboarded; breadboarding; breadboards
: to make an experimental arrangement of (something, such as an electronic circuit or a mechanical system) to test feasibility
Examples of breadboard in a Sentence
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 May 2023
Attached to it is an optical breadboard housing the tracking and acquisition systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2022
It’s made from natural beech wood and can be used as a cutting board and a breadboard.
—Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
Trimble, enthralled with the idea of GPS as a free information utility ripe for commercial exploitation, bought the rights to an HP GPS breadboard in the summer of 1982.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2018
The Pottery Barn trestle table with breadboard leaves accommodates many people without overtaking the room.
—Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
Coraggio Textiles Dining Area The custom breadboard-style plank dining table is made of elm wood taken from antique Chinese gates.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 30 Mar. 2023
Like the breadboard method, which showed how someone might have tainted the capsules.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
Use twine to tie the wreath onto the handle of a breadboard.
—Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2022
Catherine Sinow, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2020
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Noun
Shapiro is a legal philosopher at Yale University, but as a child, his mathematician father—who worked at Bell Labs—sparked an interest in computing by bringing home various components, like microchips, resistors, diodes, LEDs, and breadboards.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 May 2023
Attached to it is an optical breadboard housing the tracking and acquisition systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2022
It’s made from natural beech wood and can be used as a cutting board and a breadboard.
—Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
Trimble, enthralled with the idea of GPS as a free information utility ripe for commercial exploitation, bought the rights to an HP GPS breadboard in the summer of 1982.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2018
The Pottery Barn trestle table with breadboard leaves accommodates many people without overtaking the room.
—Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
Coraggio Textiles Dining Area The custom breadboard-style plank dining table is made of elm wood taken from antique Chinese gates.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 30 Mar. 2023
Like the breadboard method, which showed how someone might have tainted the capsules.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
Use twine to tie the wreath onto the handle of a breadboard.
—Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2022
Verb
An outside party used Max to breadboard the wildly popular music software Ableton Live.
—Catherine Sinow, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2020
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“Breadboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breadboard. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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