Daughterboard vs. Motherboard

Daughterboardnoun

A circuit board that is an extension of a motherboard or other card.

Daughterboardnoun

a small printed circuit board that attaches to a larger one.

Motherboardnoun

(computer hardware) The primary circuit board of a personal computer, containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and monitor, together with slots for other devices.

Motherboardnoun

The board containing the main circuits of an electronic device, especially computers. The term is used primarily in microcomputer literature, where it designates the board containing the main expansion bus, and usually also the cpu. On motherboards designed with an expansion bus, often all of the circuits not contained on an expansion card are on the motherboard.

Motherboardnoun

a printed circuit board containing the principal components of a computer or other device, with connectors for other circuit boards to be slotted into.

Motherboard

A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, or mobo) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals.