expansion card
<hardware>
A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface.
Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.Last updated: 1998-06-26
expansion slot
<hardware>
A connector in a computer into which an expansion card can be plugged. The connector supplies power to the card and connects it to the data bus, address bus and control signals of the motherboard.
Last updated: 1998-06-26
Nearby terms:
Expanded Memory Specification ♦ expansion card ♦ expansion slot
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