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feedthrough

noun

feedthrough is a noun meaning “A conductor that connects circuits or components on either side of a printed circuit board” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-E-D-T-H-R-O-U-G-H, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feedthrough is feedthroughs.

What does feedthrough mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A conductor that connects circuits or components on either side of a printed circuit board.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of feedthrough

  • feedthroughs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is feedthrough?

Feedthrough appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does feedthrough come from?

From feed + through.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).