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PRONUNCIATION OF PLUGBOARD

plugboard  [ˈplʌɡˌbɔːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLUGBOARD

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Plugboard is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PLUGBOARD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

plugboard

Plugboard

A plugboard, or control panel, is an array of jacks, or hubs, into which patch cords can be inserted to complete an electrical circuit. Control panels were used to direct the operation of some unit record equipment. Plugboards were used on some cipher machines, and some early computers.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLUGBOARD


billboard
ˈbɪlˌbɔːd
blackboard
ˈblækˌbɔːd
cardboard
ˈkɑːdˌbɔːd
chalkboard
ˈtʃɔːkˌbɔːd
clipboard
ˈklɪpˌbɔːd
dashboard
ˈdæʃˌbɔːd
keyboard
ˈkiːˌbɔːd
leaderboard
ˈliːdəˌbɔːd
logboard
ˈlɒɡˌbɔːd
motherboard
ˈmʌðəˌbɔːd
outboard
ˈaʊtˌbɔːd
overboard
ˈəʊvəˌbɔːd
pegboard
ˈpɛɡˌbɔːd
scoreboard
ˈskɔːˌbɔːd
skateboard
ˈskeɪtˌbɔːd
snowboard
ˈsnəʊˌbɔːd
surfboard
ˈsɜːfˌbɔːd
switchboard
ˈswɪtʃˌbɔːd
WebBoard
ˈwɛbˌbɔːd
whiteboard
ˈwaɪtˌbɔːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLUGBOARD

plug
plug and play
plug compatible
plug gauge
plug hat
plug in
plug-and-play
plug-in
plug-uglies
plug-ugly
plug´n´play
plugged
plugged-in
plugger
plugging
plughole
plugless
plugola
plum
plum duff

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLUGBOARD

aboard
across the board
across-the-board
board
bulletin board
circuit board
cupboard
executive board
flipboard
free on board
go by the board
headboard
message board
on board
onboard
pinboard
school board
secretary to the board
sideboard
storyboard
take on board

Synonyms and antonyms of plugboard in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «plugboard» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLUGBOARD

Find out the translation of plugboard to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of plugboard from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «plugboard» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

插板
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

plugboard
570 millions of speakers

English

plugboard
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्लग बोर्ड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

plugboard
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

коммутационная панель
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

plugboard
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

plugboard
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tableau de connexion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Papan cawangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sammelstecker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

配線盤
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

플러그 보드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Plugboard
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

plugboard
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

plugboard
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्लगबोर्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kumanda tablosu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

plugboard
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

plugboard
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

комутаційна панель
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tabela de prize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

plugboard
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

plugboard
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

plugboard
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Plugboard
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about plugboard

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLUGBOARD»

Discover the use of plugboard in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to plugboard and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cryptology: Classical and Modern with Maplets
Pressing an input letter on the keyboard on an Enigma sent current designating the letter first to the plugboard. The plugboard was situated on the front of an Enigma, and had 26 open sockets, one to represent each possible letter.
Richard E. Klima, Neil P. Sigmon, 2012
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Introduction to Cryptography with Mathematical Foundations ...
Counting Plugboard Arrangements. (a) For the six-socket plugboard of the scaled -down Enigma machine of Example 3.8, in how many ways could a single plugboard cable be installed? How many different ways could two plugboard cables ...
Alexander Stanoyevitch, 2010
3
The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook
It took the Germans longer to discover this defect and they invented the plugboard which now prevents this attack. The probable word had to be mapped at first with the plugboard substitution which presumably is not known to the enemy.
Karl Maria Michael de Leeuw, Jan Bergstra, 2007
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Data Privacy and Security: Encryption and Information Hiding
Following Rejewski's example, Turing looked for ways to exploit cribs to identify plugboard invariants, i.e., to separate the effect of the plugboard from that of the rotors (recall that selecting three rotors from a set of eight has increased the ...
David Salomon, 2003
5
Enigma: The Battle for the Code
In Figure 1 plugboard socket G is shown connected to plugboard socket A, which is assumption 2. As is obvious from Figure 1, the only unknown, marked by a '?' in Figure 1, is the plugboard socket to which the M plugboard socket is ...
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, 2002
6
Applied Cryptanalysis: Breaking Ciphers in the Real World
The input plugboard permutation enables any six letters to be connected to the internal sixes in (2.4). If, after passing through the input plugboard, the resulting letter is permuted to one of the sixes, it then passes through a permutation, ...
Mark Stamp, Richard M. Low, 2007
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Validated Designs for Object-oriented Systems
An alphabet is required to instantiate the reflector, the rotor and the plugboard. The instance variable alph is defined for that purpose, which is initialised by the operation SetUp. Note that this operation redefines the operation SetUp from the  ...
John Fitzgerald, Peter Gorm Larsen, Paul Mukherjee, 2005
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The Genie in the Machine: How Computer-automated Inventing ...
limitation, the Hollerith tabulator was modified in 1902 to include a plugboard similar to the kind found in old-fashioned telephone switchboards. The tabulator could then be made to tabulate different kinds of data merely by rearranging the ...
Robert Plotkin, 2009
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Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer ...
For Aberdeen's tabulator, he had devised a fourth-difference plugboard. It was the only one in the country as far as anyone knew. A “fourth difference” looks like this: Numbers 1st diff. 2nd diff. 3rd diff. 4th diff. 100 95 5 82 13 –8 70 12 1 –9 65 5  ...
Jean Jennings Bartik, Jon T. Rickman, Kim D. Todd, 2013
10
Chess and Machine Intuition
... transformed ciphertext into the guessed plaintext. A new complication arose: the addition of a jumbling plugboard to Enigma resulted in a proliferation of possible encipherments that made such a naive brute- force enumeration impossible.
George W. Atkinson, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLUGBOARD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term plugboard is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rare Enigma machine fetches 149000 pounds at auction
Whoever received the message needed to know the exact settings of the rotors, and those of the machine's plugboard, in order to decode the ... «Financial Express, Jul 15»
2
Rare Engima machine sells at auction for $232000
Whoever received the message needed to know the exact settings of the rotors, and those of the machine's plugboard, in order to decode the ... «Gizmag, Jul 15»
3
Breaking the code at the Museum of Science and Industry
It would encode and decode a message using a combination of interchangeable rotors and plugboard configurations. The rotors and plugs ... «Hyde Park Herald, Mar 15»
4
A Ship's Whistle
Plugboard and isinglass, grimoire and cwm, friends all. Still I felt horribly alone. Until one day it dropped through roundel light onto the mat. «The New Yorker, Mar 15»
5
Special: the Wrens of Bletchley Park
... and their positions in the machine, the rotor core start positions for the message—the message key—and one of the wirings of the plugboard. «Mobile Industry Review, Feb 15»
6
Alan Turing cracked Nazi Germany's Enigma code
Perched on a table in the synagogue's social hall, the Enigma machine's keyboard, rotors, lampboard and plugboard seemed to work as ... «Intermountain Jewish News, Jan 15»
7
Music/Reise gig review: Unique musical collaboration honours spirit …
... aficionados the sight of a musician playing with wires on a plugboard is borderline fetishistic) to the building, Neu!-like surge towards the end. «The Independent, Jan 15»
8
Build Your Own Enigma Cipher Machine
But now there's a middle ground: a hardware kit that duplicates the physical operation of the Enigma's keyboard, display, and plugboard while ... «IEEE Spectrum, Dec 14»
9
A smartphone from Santa: what are the safety features?
... when you think they are sleeping.” Grehan suggests setting up a plugboard downstairs as a charging centre, where all phones can be left. «Irish Times, Dec 14»
10
How the Enigma encryption machine worked
Adding to the scrambling was a plugboard, sitting between the main rotors and the input and output, which swapped pairs of letters. In the ... «Raw Story, Nov 14»

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