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chessboard

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A square playing surface divided into eight rows and eight columns, forming sixty-four equal squares arranged in an alternating pattern of colors across both rows and columns.
  2. noun A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares.

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Word family

chessboards

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