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plug and play

support by computer device or bus for automatically discovering of components without manual configuration
Class type of: interoperability Q857815
plug and play
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Facts

4 properties
Instance of
technical standard, quality[2]
Subclass of
interoperability[3]
Characteristic of
bus, computer hardware[7][8]
Different from
Legacy Plug and Play, hot swapping, plug-in[4][5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en PnP en plug & play en plug-and-play en plug and play ar Plug and play ar التوصيل والتشغيل ar ركب و شغل ar ركب وشغل cs Plug and play de PnP de Plug 'n' play de Plug & Play de Plug-and-Play de Nicht-PnP de Plug&play es PnP es Plug and-play es Plug-and-play es Plug & play fa اتصال و اجرا
🔖 Identifiers · 10
Library of Congress authority ID
sh99001833
OpenAlex ID
C2780070844
De Agostini ID
Plug+and+Play
Freebase ID
/m/014z6d
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780070844
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007563713805171
OSDev article ID
2170
Quora topic ID
Plug-and-Play
Stack Exchange tag
stackoverflow.com
Yale LUX ID
concept/20f520c0-2a77-4efe-be7e-3d29a10dd171

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🔗 Connections
Characteristic of 2
computer hardware, bus
Different from 2
plug-in, hot swapping
Instance of 1
quality
Subclass of 1
interoperability
← Different from 1
plug-in
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Summary

plug and play is a technical standard[1].

Related Entities

computer hardware interoperability

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  1. 15w ago · Spiral6800 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSDev article ID → 2170
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ OSDev article ID: 2170, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/299326704|Plug-and-Play (#299326704)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8178|OSDev articles]] #mi"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Characteristic of → bus, computer hardware
    Instance of → technical standard, quality
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007563713805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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