: carried within or occurring aboard a vehicle (such as a satellite or an automobile)
an onboard computer
onboard recorders
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The car comes with an onboard computer.
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Like its other trips, these adventures will be curated for each traveler, ensuring everyone is matched with the right ships, rooms, and onboard experiences.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2025
According to Delta, the evacuation was due to an onboard indication of an engine issue prior to takeoff.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
For a fee, a car dealer or smog repair shop could plug a vehicle into a device meant to mimic the car’s onboard diagnostics port.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025
The images are then sent for processing to an onboard Nvidia GPU because John Deere wanted to be sure the tractor’s edge AI system was doing all of its predictions and planning on the vehicle itself, and not up in the cloud.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2025
According to Delta, the evacuation was due to an onboard indication of an engine issue prior to takeoff.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
For a fee, a car dealer or smog repair shop could plug a vehicle into a device meant to mimic the car’s onboard diagnostics port.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025
The images are then sent for processing to an onboard Nvidia GPU because John Deere wanted to be sure the tractor’s edge AI system was doing all of its predictions and planning on the vehicle itself, and not up in the cloud.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Onboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onboard. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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