- springboard - a flexible board for jumping upward
--1 is a kind of board
--1 has particulars: diving board- springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure - a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"
--2 is a kind of beginning, start, commencement
- springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure - a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out"