cursor
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cursor, from currō + -or.
Pronunciation Nouncursor (plural cursors)
- A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
- (GUI) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
- (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and sometimes called a caret, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
- (databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
- (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
- Synonyms: iterator pattern
- French: curseur
- German: Mauszeiger
- Portuguese: cursor, ponteiro
- Russian: курсо́р
- Spanish: cursor, puntero
- Russian: курсо́р
- Spanish: cursor
- Russian: курсо́р
cursor (cursors, present participle cursoring; simple past and past participle cursored)
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
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