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chessboard

The English word “chessboard” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A square playing surface divided into eight rows and eight columns, forming sixty-four equal squares arranged in an alternating pattern of colors across both rows and columns.
  2. A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares.

Etymology

From chess + board.

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