video card

See also: videocard

English

Etymology

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Noun

video card (plural video cards)

1. (computing) A piece of hardware installed into a personal computer to allow it to send video signals to an external output device such as a monitor or projector.

Synonyms

• display adapter
• graphics accelerator card
• graphics adapter
• graphics card
• video adapter
• video board
• video display board

Related terms

• 3d-card

Translations

display adapter

• Armenian: վիդեո քարտ (video kʻart), տեսաքարտ (tesakʻart)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顯示卡／显示卡 (zh) (xiǎnshìkǎ), 顯卡／显卡 (zh) (xiǎnkǎ) (short form)

• Dutch: grafische kaart c, videokaart (nl) c
• Finnish: grafiikkakortti (fi), näytönohjain (fi)
• French: carte graphique (fr) f, carte vidéo (fr), adaptateur graphique (fr) m
• German: Grafikkarte (de) f
• Hungarian: videokártya (hu)
• Irish: físchárta m
• Italian: scheda video f, videoscheda f
• Japanese: ビデオカード (bideokādo), グラフィックスカード (gurafikkusukādo), グラボ (gurabo)
• Kazakh: бейнеконтроллер тақшасы (beinekontroller taqşasy)
• Macedonian: видеока́ртичка f (videokártička)
• Polish: karta graficzna (pl) f
• Portuguese: placa de vídeo f
• Russian: видеока́рта (ru) f (videokárta), видеопла́та (ru) f (videopláta)
• Thai: การ์ดจอ