SPRINGBOARD

SpringBoard

Springboard, or Home Screen, is the standard application that manages the iOS home screen. Other tasks include starting WindowServer, launching and bootstrapping applications and setting some of the device's settings on startup.

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springboard

Noun

  1. A diving board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform, used for diving into water.
  2. A small platform on springs and usually hinged at one end, used to launch or vault onto other equipment.
  3. Anything that gives a person or thing energy or impulse, or that serves to launch or begin something.
    The opportunity served a springboard to their success.

Verb

  1. To launch or propel as if from a springboard.


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