Usually means: Connective panel for routing signals.
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  1. patchboard: Merriam-Webster
  2. patchboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  4. patchboard: Wordnik
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  6. patchboard: Dictionary.com
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  8. patchboard: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. patchboard: Encyclopedia

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noun:  A component of a manual telephone switchboard, or of various early data processing equipment, in which circuits are completed with cords on a matrix of connections.

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