plotting board
Americannoun
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Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
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Military. a device based on a map or other scale representation of a region against which artillery fire is to be directed, for use in directing artillery fire against a fixed or moving target.
Etymology
Origin of plotting board
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Bill’s position was to handle the early-warning plotting board.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2021
He had his mortar tube�but no base plate, no plotting board, no aiming stakes, no forward observer.
From Time Magazine Archive
These reports, usually passed on to the Air Force through the Air Defense Command's Ground Observer Corps, merely went on the UFO plotting board as a statistic.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
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