soundboard

soundboard
noun Date: 1504 1. a thin resonant board (as the belly of a violin) so placed in an instrument as to reinforce its tones by sympathetic vibration — see violin illustration 2. sounding board 1a 3. (usually sound board) sound card

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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