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cursor

  (kûr'sər) pronunciation
n. Computer Science.

A bright, usually blinking, movable indicator on a display, marking the position at which a character can be entered, corrected, or deleted.

[Middle English, runner, from Latin, from cursus, past participle of currere, to run.]


 
 

Symbol on a computer terminal that shows where on the screen the next character to be typed will appear. Cursors often appear as blinking dashes or rectangles.

 
is short for:

Cursor (Sun Cursor file)

 
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IN BRIEF: A flashing signal on a computer screen.

pronunciation The cursor on the screen tells you where you are able to write the next word.

 
Wikipedia: cursor (disambiguation)

A cursor is a moving placement or pointer that indicates a position. English-speakers have used the term with this meaning since the 16th century, for a wide variety of movable or mobile position-markers.

The literal meaning of the original Latin word cursor expresses the idea of someone or something that runs. Especially in the plural, Cursores 'runners', it was the name of certain functions, originally messengers.

The word cursor may refer to any of the following:

  • Cursor was also the name of an early computer-based "magazine" that was distributed on cassette in the late 1970s. Each "issue" contained programs, utilities, and games and was a forerunner of today's computer magazines that come packaged with CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. Cursor was produced for users of the Commodore PET.

 
Translations: Translations for: Cursor

Dansk (Danish)
n. - cursor, markør, skyder

Nederlands (Dutch)
cursor, doorzichtige schuif met streep (op rekenliniaal)

Français (French)
n. - curseur

Deutsch (German)
n. - Cursor, Schreibmarke

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δρομέας λογαριθμικού κανόνα, (Η/Υ) δρομέας, φωτεινός δείκτης

Italiano (Italian)
cursore

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cursor (m)

Русский (Russian)
курсор

Español (Spanish)
n. - cursor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - markör

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
指针, 游标

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 指標, 游標

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 활자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - カーソル

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مؤشر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נתב (על מרקע המחשב), סמן‬


 
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