The Collaborative International Dictionary
hardboard \hard"board`\ n. a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin to form sheets, used in construction and various other purposes; -- called also particle board and chipboard.
Syn: chipboard.
fiberboard \fiberboard\ n. a type of wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets, calle also particle board.
Syn: fibreboard, particle board.
Wiktionary
n. (context US Canada English) a structural material manufactured from wood particles (such as chips and shavings) by pressing, and binding through resin
WordNet
n. wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets [syn: fiberboard, fibreboard]
Wikipedia
Particle board, also known as particleboard and chipboard, is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even sawdust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extruded. Oriented strand board, also known as flakeboard, waferboard, or chipboard, is similar but uses machined wood flakes offering more strength. All of these are composite materials that belong to the spectrum of fiberboard products.
Usage examples of "particle board".
Hazard put his gun on the floor and used the claw hammer to pry nails from one of the thick sheets of particle board with which Laputa had sealed off the windows.
We punished plastic troll dolls with 5-irons, blasting them down the hallway, putting yet more divots in the particle board walls and the ceiling panels.
The container port is just below him to the west: a grid of warehouses on reclaimed land that is about as flat, and as natural, as a sheet of particle board.
At the corridor's end he came to a blank wall, seemingly made of particle board sealed somehow to the raw concrete.
That had to have been like directing two pieces of particle board—.
But now the sign was torn down and the row of plate-glass display windows and double doors that stretched along the entire front of the building at sidewalk level had been replaced by particle board, painted black.
All that was left were the particle board sheets that the builders had used instead of floorboards.
Nothing beeped or bleeped or shrilled or trilled as I looked at the two rows of cubicles with shoulder-height partitions made of particle board.
A long makeshift table had been built out of two-by-fours and particle board, and was stacked with paper, electronic equipment, and a computer with a printer.