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mother board - the main circuit board for a computer

C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, mainframe, processor - (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing; "the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached"

add-in, circuit board, circuit card, plug-in, board, card - a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities

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Three tenders for the supply of (a) instruments to measure earthling resistance, (b) closed type 12 volt dry batteries for recharging with no need for maintenance (55 & 100 Amp/ hour), also (c) electronic cards for mother board (CPU) mother board, Alpha Server, with related circuits, meters & batteries.

Supply of (a) instruments to measure earthling resistance, (b) closed type 12 volt dry batteries for recharging with no need for maintenance (55 & 100 Amp/ hour), also (c) electronic cards for mother board (CPU) mother board, Alpha Server, with related ci

The pilot aborted the takeoff and waited until the airport staff helped the mother board the plane.

Plane take-off aborted after Saudi passenger forgets mother

The image, uploaded by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee in 1992, was edited on a colour Mac in version one of Photoshop and saved as a .gif, according to Mother Board.

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Figure 5 shows a cross section of the packaged MMIC mounted on a mother board. The MMIC is mounted on a chip carrier using standard wire bonding.

A DC TO 50 GHz AND BEYOND MMIC CARRIER

NEC Corp say it has become the first company in the world to succeed in mounting microchips on a PC mother board with unleaded solder.

NEC Develops Nonlead Solder for Mounting Chips

"The greatest benefit of the new interface protocol is that a CD-ROM drive now can be connected directly to the mother board of new PC systems," said Robert van Eijk, product manager for CD-ROM at Philips.