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What is a clapperboard?

What is a clapperboard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (film) A device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
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I hope he didn't, from force of habit, use a clapperboard when he did his online show.
The clapperboard sounded again, as the director launched the film at a temple at AVM studios on Sunday, cheered by a surging crowd.
And they recorded the sound at different speeds, without a clapperboard, so there was no way to synch it with the images.
He's so smart, when he sees the clapperboard and hears it he wants to take off.
Graduating from the tea urn to 'number boy', snapping shut the clapperboard, his appetite to learn was voracious.
At the end they gave him a clapperboard signed by cast and crew.

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