(computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions
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When you think you've found an item you move the cursor over it and click on it.
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The chip chosen will replace the mouse cursor when hovering over available bets.
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The iPhone does fine without one because of its excellent cursor-placement tool.
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When the batteries begin to get low, the cursor starts acting of its own accord.
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The trackball replaces a computer mouse and uses a large ball for cursor motion.
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Nope, your mouse or trackpad is better for positioning the cursor in small boxes.
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Sometimes the pulse of the thumb can move the cursor from one song to the next.
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Move the cursor over any card and you can expand it to see the original document.
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Moving the cursor over a ball causes a description of the site to be displayed.
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- (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions
- In computing, a cursor is an indicator used to show the position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device. The flashing text cursor may be referred to as a caret in some cases. ...
- In database packages, a cursor comprises a control structure for the successive (and potential processing) of records in a result set.
- CURSOR - Programs for PET Computers was the name of an early computer-based "magazine" that was distributed on cassette from 1978 and into the early 1980s. ...
- The slide rule, also known colloquially as a slipstick, is a mechanical analog computer. The slide rule is used primarily for multiplication and division, and also for functions such as roots, logarithms and trigonometry, but is not normally used for addition or subtraction.
- On a typewriter, the cursor is a vertical line indicating the position at which the next character will be printed.
- A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position; A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device; An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. ...
- The pointer, usually arrow or cross shaped, which is controlled by the mouse.
- A block, underline character, arrow, or other symbol used on a display screen to indicate a particular location on the screen.
