boardful

boardful

English

Etymology

board +‎ -ful

Noun

boardful (plural boardfuls or boardsful)

1. An amount that fills a board.
   • 1990, George Gilder, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology:

     But as systems designers master the use of computer- aided engineering and move toward silicon compilation, they will increasingly reduce those boardsful of logic to single VLSI chips.

   • 2001, Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds:

     A pattern is usually quickly established in which the professor repeatedly fills the blackboard with equations, copying from handwritten notes, while the students try to copy each boardful into their own notes before it is erased to make room for the next.

   • 2006, Bob Harris, Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!, page 46:

     After all, boardfuls of clues are created long in advance and chosen at random with no knowledge of players.