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onboard

onboard

8 4.1
Part of a device or system rather than separate
  • adjective
  • /ˈɒnˌbɔrd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : integrado
  • In broad terms, there are four possible types of onboard engines.
  • onboard reformer
  • onboard gasoline
  • onboard sensors

It's got autofocus and it's got onboard stabilization.

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Examples

  • Onboard computers indicated the presence of life, of millions of organisms.

  • It's got autofocus and it's got onboard stabilization.

  • The image above was taken with the onboard camera in my instrument.

    Blog text (9)
  • You get access to that onboard diagnostic port data and at scale.

  • So all that happens at once and it's an onboard automated thing.

  • Drivers report to a central office through onboard computers.

    Academic text (2007)
  • David looks over at his laptop, connected to the ship's onboard computers.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • For now, though, we're getting some spectacular images back from the onboard cameras of the Orion module, the moon, and of course, the Earth itself as well.

  • The mixer truck has an onboard electronic scale that allows precise adjustments to be made to the compost mix.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The new airplane is equipped with an onboard entertainment system that includes movies and games.

Synonyms

built-in
vsonboard
59 3.9

A feature that is part of something from the start, not added later

is specific to machines or systems rather than general items

Antonyms

829 2.1

Not joined to another thing and kept apart

125 4.1

Located outside a place, group, or body

How Integrated

native
  • Specialized
31 5.6
embedded
4.4
onboard
  • Specialized
8 4.1
attached
3.1
external
125 4.1

Surface Forms

onboard positive
on-board positive

Morphology

onboard = board (semi-transparent) = on + board

Formed from 'on' + 'board' and clearly related to position, but the technical meaning 'built into a system' is an extended, specialized sense. [Postprocessing: moved 'on' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Onboard comes from the simple parts on and board, where board once meant the wooden floor of a ship or the inside of a vehicle. So a part that is onboard is literally 'on' the vehicle, which is why we use it today for things built into a machine or system.