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display board

n. a board on which information can be displayed to public view [syn: display panel, board]

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Display board

A display board is a board-shaped material that is rigid and strong enough to stand on its own, and generally used paper or other materials affixed to it. Display board may also be referred to as poster board. Along with quad charts, display boards were an early form of fast communication developed by the National Weather Service of the United States Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Usage examples of "display board".

Here behind the control console where the pumpman now sat, a visual display board, nine feet wide and four feet tall, occupied the wall.

A burst of rifle fire battered her zoot, and she curled around, automatically protecting the display board without even looking up.

The dreamy-eyed woman behind the counter only reluctantly took her attention from the display board balanced in her lap.

The briefing led off with an intelligence officer unveiling a display board showing aerial photographs of the targets.

She touched the display board, frowned, punched out a combination, scowled, and turned back to the rest of us.

Then the background behind her really registered, a night cityscape, all gold bars of light that were the windows of skyscrapers and the red of air-traffic steering lights and the occasional multicolored retro-neon display board that flashed its messages into the darkness, and he realized who she had to be.

Printers chattered madly as the admirals arrived at Command Central, and the two of them turned as one to the main display board.