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.]
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[Middle English, runner, from Latin, from cursus, past participle of currere, to run.]
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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.
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The cursor on the screen tells you where you are able to write the next word.
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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. Cursor was also a Roman cognomen used by gens Papiria.
The word cursor may refer to any of the following:
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| Translations: 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
Português (Portuguese)
n. - cursor (m)
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
指针, 游标
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 指標, 游標
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مؤشر
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - נתב (על מרקע המחשב), סמן
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