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check·er·board (chĕk'ər-bôrd', -bōrd') ![]() |
| Veterinary Dictionary: checkerboard |
The pattern of a chess or draft board; used in many circumstances to display the results of mixing a specific number of variables. The variables are listed in columns designated along the horizontal border and the same or different variables in lines along the vertical border; the results of each mixing are recorded in the box where the columns and lines carrying the ingredients of the mix intersect.
| Wikipedia: Checkerboard |
A checkerboard (or chequerboard) is a board on which English draughts is played. It is an 8×8 board and the 64 squares are of alternating dark and light color, often red and black.
The term checkerboard is also used to denote any rectangular square-tiled board. In this sense it refers not to a physical board as such but to the mathematical abstraction of such a board. The adjective checkered may refer to a pattern resembling a checkerboard, as in the checkered flag used to welcome the winning cars in a Formula One race, for instance, or the livery on some emergency service vehicles.
The checkerboard pattern is often associated with the Ska music genre, for breaking the racial barrier between black and whites at the time.
An 8×8 board is also used for some other board games, although not necessarily a board with an alternating pattern:
A checkerboard marking painted on a hilltop was used as visual guidance on Hongkong's old Kai Tak Airport.
Many taxicabs also use a checkerboard pattern.
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| Translations: Checkerboard |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - dambræt, skakbræt
Français (French)
n. - (US) damier
Deutsch (German)
n. - Schachbrett
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - άβακας (επιτραπέζιου παιχνιδιού) (κν. σκακιέρα, νταμιέρα)
Português (Portuguese)
n. - tabuleiro (m) de damas ou xadrez
Русский (Russian)
шахматная доска
Español (Spanish)
n. - tablero de damas
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - schackbräde, dambräde
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
西洋跳棋棋盘, 象棋棋盘
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 西洋跳棋棋盤, 象棋棋盤
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 서양 장기판, 흑인과 백인의 혼주 지역
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) رقعه لعبه الداما
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - לוח דמקה
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