cursor
Digital Technology. a movable, sometimes blinking, marker that indicates the position on a display screen where the next character entered from the keyboard will appear, or where user action is possible.
a sliding object, as the lined glass on a slide rule, that can be set at any point on a scale.
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The more times the mouse sends this information, the smoother your cursor should move across the screen, whether you’re in the midst of intense game action or just moving around the menus.
Razer’s new gaming mouse pings your computer 8,000 times a second to fight lag | Stan Horaczek | January 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceClick once to establish a starting point and navigate your cursor around the object you want to select.
Here, you’ll be able to change the cursor size, color, and thickness as required.
How to completely customize the way you control Windows | David Nield | January 15, 2021 | Popular-ScienceTo see more information about each goal type and some of the highlighted features each goal recommends, simply place your cursor over a goal.
Researchers began placing probes in the brains of paralyzed people in the late 1990s in order to show that signals could let them move robot arms or computer cursors.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater | David Rotman | August 30, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking | M.L. Nestel | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHover over an area with your cursor to see the distance between where you are and the nearest clinic.
Interactive: The Geography of Abortion Access | Michael Keller, Allison Yarrow | January 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is nothing so humbling as staring at a blinking cursor on a screen entitled “Inaugural Address.”
Do a video search and you instantly get a giant page of thumbnails—roll the cursor over one and it starts playing right there.
Users who find this behavior distracting may keep their mouse or cursor in text-free areas such a margin or scroll bar.
Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela | Samuel RichardsonHover the cursor over the underlined text and the nature of the correction will appear.
The Romance of the Reaper | Herbert Newton CassonThe light-spot cursor and joy-stick method replace the light pen in this case.
On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969 | H. W. Fulbright et al.Hover the cursor over the marked text to view the original text.
The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology | Silvio A. BediniHover the cursor over the underlined text, and the nature of the correction will appear.
Cottage Economy | William Cobbett
British Dictionary definitions for cursor
/ (ˈkɜːsə) /
the sliding part of a measuring instrument, esp a transparent sliding square on a slide rule
any of various means, typically a flashing bar or underline, of identifying a particular position on a computer screen, such as the insertion point for text
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