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<hardware, electronics> A printed circuit board with slots into which other cards are plugged.
A backplane,is typically just a connector and does not usually have many active components on it. This contrasts with a motherboard.
Designing a backplane (http://iec.org/online/tutorials/design_backplane/index.html).
(2002-09-08)
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