blade

blade

One component in a system that is designed to accept some number of components (blades). Blades can be individual servers or clients that plug into a single cabinet or individual port cards that add connectivity to a switch. A blade is typically a hot swappable hardware device, but a software architecture could use the blade terminology as well. See blade server and blade PC.

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blade

1. the flattened expanded part of a leaf, sepal, or petal

2. the long narrow leaf of a grass or related plant

3. Archaeol a long thin flake of flint, possibly used as a tool

4. short for shoulder blade

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blade [blād]

(botany)

The broad, flat portion of a leaf. Also known as lamina.

(electricity)

A flat moving conductor in a switch.

(engineering)

A broad, flat arm of a fan, turbine, or propeller.

The broad, flat surface of a bulldozer or snowplow by which the material is moved.

The part of a cutting tool, such as a saw, that cuts.

(vertebrate zoology)

A single plate of baleen.

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blade

1. The flat metal surface of a trowel with which plaster is applied.

2. The cutting part of a knife, plane, etc.

3. The broad, slightly concave surface of a bulldozer, or the like, which pushes the material being moved.

4. One of the principal rafters of a roof.

5. To remove, spread, or level a material such as dirt, or gravel by the use of a grader.