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printed circuit board

board to support and connect electronic components
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Summary

printed circuit board ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,743 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: physical technological component[2], electrical circuit[3], plate[4], board[5]
  • Commons category: Printed circuit boards[6]
  • Said to be the same as: printed circuit board assembly[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Printed circuit boards[8]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tags/pcb[9]
  • Short name: PCB[10]
  • Different from: printed electronics[11]
  • MCN code: 8517.70.10[12], 8538.90.10[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]

Why It Matters

printed circuit board has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 114 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subreddit → PCB
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Subreddit: PCB, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/144664937|PCB (#144664937)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5569|Subreddit Directory]] #mix'n'mat"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['Yl2Ga', '4CuO1B']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001876-plosne-spoje
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001876-plosne-spoje, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → printed electronics
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → physical technological component, electrical circuit, plate +1
    Said to be the same as → printed circuit board assembly
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|12 */ Yso id: 952, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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