cursor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
cursor (plural cursors)
- a part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
- (graphical user interface) a moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device
- (graphical user interface) an indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place
- Synonyms: the caret
- (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: the iterator pattern
- French: curseur
- German: Mauszeiger
- Portuguese: cursor
- Russian: курсо́р
- Spanish: cursor
- German: Schreibmarke
- Italian: puntatore, cursore
- Russian: курсо́р
- Russian: курсо́р
- Russian: курсо́р
cursor (cursors, present participle cursoring; past and past participle cursored)
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
- 1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)
- The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.
- 1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)
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