noun, Also called, British, draughtboard(for def 1).
1.
a board marked off into 64 squares of two alternating colors, arranged in eight vertical and eight horizontal rows, on which checkers or chess is played.
2.
a design resembling this:
The garden was laid out in a checkerboard.
verb (used with object)
3.
to arrange in or mark with a checkerboard pattern:
Our logical thoughts dominate experience only as the parallels and meridians make a checkerboard of the sea.
Once in, he focused his eyes on an alternating checkerboard pattern projected onto a screen inside the tube.
The belly displays a vague checkerboard pattern of gray or brown on white or yellowish.
checkerboard and polka dot patterns are not imitated so exactly.
The checkerboard arrangement came about because the government gave the railroad every other section of land.
Calculate the amount of coating buffer and coating antibody needed for the checkerboard plate.
British Dictionary definitions for checkerboard
checkerboard
/ˈtʃɛkəˌbɔːd/
noun
1.
(US & Canadian) a square board divided into 64 squares of alternating colours, used for playing checkers or chess Also called (in Britain and certain other countries) draughtboard