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Definition of Checkerboard
1. Noun. A board having 64 squares of two alternating colors.
Group relationships: Checkers, Draughts, Chess, Chess Game
Generic synonyms: Board, Gameboard
Specialized synonyms: Chess Board, Chessboard
Terms within: Square, Diagonal
Definition of Checkerboard
1. n. A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Definition of Checkerboard
1. Noun. A pattern of squares of alternating colours. ¹
2. Noun. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Checkerboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checkerboard
Literary usage of Checkerboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1909)
"Flooding by checkerboard System of Squares.— This method is practised extensively
on the level plains of Southern Arizona and in India. ..."
2. Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1909)
"Flooding by checkerboard System of Squares.— This method is practised extensively
on the level plains of Southern Arizona and in India. ..."
3. A Russian Comedy of Errors: With Other Stories and Sketches of Russian Life by George Kennan (1915)
"I. THE checkerboard SQUARE When I last saw you, nearly a year ago, you asked me
to write out for you the story of my life in the fortress of Petropavlovsk. ..."
4. Manual of Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1896)
"Flooding by checkerboard System of Squares.— This method is practised extensively on
... checkerboard ..."
5. Corinthian Hellenistic Pottery by G. Roger Edwards (1975)
"petalled flower medallion ; necklace ; imbricate pointed leaves; lip zone,
alternate diminishing rectangles, checkerboard, hour-glass, and butterfly pattern ..."
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