particle board

1. 1.

   wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets

   Synonymsfiberboardfibreboard

   Broaderwallboard

   NarrowerMasonite

Questions about particle board

What does particle board mean?

particle board means "wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets".

What is another word for particle board?

Close synonyms include fiberboard, fibreboard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is particle board a common word?

particle board is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.