German

Whiteboard

Noun

Whiteboard n ‎(genitive Whiteboards, plural Whiteboards)

1. whiteboard (white large vertical writing area)

English

Noun

A blank whiteboard

whiteboard ‎(plural whiteboards)

1. A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine

     Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board, which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.

2. (by extension, computing) A collaborative tool allowing several users to draw a picture together.

Derived terms

• whiteboard marker

See also

• blackboard
• chalkboard
• imageboard

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