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mouseover
[ mous-oh-ver ]
/ ˈmaʊsˌoʊ vər /
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noun
a website feature that generates the appearance of a pop-up message, image, or hyperlink when a pointer is directed, as by a mouse, over a specific item on the screen: Thanks to mouseovers, our online shoppers can quickly view details about the products of interest to them.
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How to use mouseover in a sentence
The original versions of any corrections may be viewed as mouseover text.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century|Richard Henry TawneyThe original versions of any corrections may be viewed as you read as mouseover text.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne|Thomas BrowneThere are also a number of printers errors that were detected and corrected, which are also annotated using mouseover text.
A History of English Versification|Jakob SchipperThe uncorrected text is shown here, but the change is annotated with mouseover text which containing the corrected value.
A History of English Versification|Jakob Schipper
British Dictionary definitions for mouseover
mouseover
/ (ˈmaʊsˌəʊvə) /
noun
computing (on the page of a website) an item, esp a graphic, that changes or pops up when the pointer of a mouse moves over it
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