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Definition of Backboard

1. Noun. A raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball. "He banked the shot off the backboard"

2. Noun. A board used to support the back of someone or something.

Definition of Backboard

1. n. A board which supports the back when one is sitting;

Definition of Backboard

1. Noun. (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached. ¹

2. Noun. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it. Designed to practice hitting against such that the ball bounces back. ¹

3. Noun. (medicine first aid) A spine board. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backboard

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backboard

backbenches backbend backbends backbit backbite backbiter backbiters backbites backbiting backbitings

backbitten backblast backblasts backblock backblocks backboard (current term) backboard splint backboards backbond backbonding ligand

backbonds backbone backboned backboneless backbones backbox backboxes backbreaker backbreakers backbreaking

Literary usage of Backboard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"The voltmeters on the side of the room against a backboard with a heavy felt gasket, making the joint. The wires come out through hard rubber tubes sealed ..."

2. The Robertson Court Martial: Authentic Report of the Trial (by Court Martial by Arthur Masterson Robertson (1862)
"Sometimes they draw swords and sometimes they do not ; it depends upon the person drilling them. How often did Captain Robertson exercise with a backboard ..."

3. The Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises (1856)
"The backboard is to be gradually raised from the position of attention, with, the arms straight, ... 13, with the backboard, is at once to be taken. ..."

4. Yachts, Boats and Canoes by C. Stansfeld-Hicks (1887)
"But comfort is additionally secured by my new kind of backboard shown I prefer this to FIC.7 u FIG.8 in Figs. 8 and 9 in section and elevation. ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"In the best forms of instruments, no wires pass through both the backboard of the generator box and the backboard D, as this causes much trouble in removing ..."

6. Instructions to Observers of the Indian Meteorological Department by India Meteorological Dept, John Eliot (1902)
"The barometer is suspended to a hook projecting from the upper end of the backboard ; and the lower extremity kept in place by three adjustable screws, ..."

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