Dictionary

podule en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɒdjuːl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpɑd͡ʒul/ (General-American)
• /ˈpɒd͡ʒuːl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Blend of pod + module.

Meanings

1. (dated) An expansion mechanism for ARM-based computer systems, generally a Eurocard-compatible printed circuit board that plugs into a backplane inside the machine.
   • The podules Acorn plans to release include network cards (for Econet and Ethernet), ROM cards containing application software, a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) sound card, an extended I/O card, […] 1987, Byte, volume 12, numbers 10-11, page 126:
   • Acorn's Springboard is a PC card with an Arm chip, either 1Mbyte or 4Mbyte of ram and a 32-bit podule bus. The result is a simple and cheap multiprocessor system on a PC base[…] 1990, Electronics World + Wireless World:
   • The Archimedes version of the Chromalock is a plug-in podule. 1989, Science Software, volume 5, page 231:
2. A pod.
3. Synonym of module (A self-contained component of a system)

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Synonyms

module