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desktop::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | background, screen background |
| Type of | crt screen, screen |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | top, top side, upper side, upside |
Examples of desktop
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For a long time, the two choices in desktop printers have been inkjet and laser.
From the thenewstribune.com
Last year, for example, HP introduced the first touchscreen, all-in-one desktop.
From the businessweek.com
For example, you might see a window briefly open and then close on your desktop.
From the chron.com
This forces the operating system to expand the desktop over both graphics cards.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Computers, both desktop and laptop, were most often used to access news at work.
From the sciencedaily.com
Desktop apps, in contrast, still need to be designed for the mouse and keyboard.
From the techcrunch.com
So instead of seeing a tiny desktop on your iPhone you see the full application.
From the techcrunch.com
Like most netbooks, it's best used as a backup for a standard laptop or desktop.
From the washingtonpost.com
There were just a few icons on the desktop and little running in the background.
From the chron.com
- The top of a desk
- Background: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- A file shortcut in Microsoft Windows is a small file containing a target URI or GUID, or the name of a target program file that the shortcut represents. The shortcut might additionally specify parameters to be passed to the target program when it is run. ...
- The top surface of a desk; A desktop computer; The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper; Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture; Of an application, converted to be carried out on a personal computer
- The part of the GNOME Desktop where there are no interface graphical items, such as panels and windows.
- 1. the finder. 2. the shaded or colored backdrop of the screen.
- A work environment provided by a graphical user interface, generally including a video monitor background, a screen saver, and one or more taskbars and icons.
- A desktop system is a computer designed to sit in one position on a desk somewhere and not move around. Most general purpose computers are desktop systems. Calling a system a desktop implies nothing about its platform. ...
- Visual component of a graphical user interface upon which icons, programs, and other visual components appear.
