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diving board en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A springboard used for diving into water.
    • when a laminated wood diving board begins to split at the seams, there's just one thing to do: cut it apart and glue it back together. 1961 May 14, Popular Science, volume 178, number 5, page 173:
    • The spring diving board is four feet above the water, but there is another diving board five feet higher than this one. 1875, The Herald of Health, page 77:
    • A piece of equipment (e.g., a sport surface or a diving board) stores energy when deformed and releases this energy when the deformation restores. 2000, Benno Maurus Nigg, Biomechanics and Biology of Movement, page 54:

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diving-board alternative lexicographic
diving boards Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

diving platform

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