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What (who) is cursor - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Cursors; Cursor (disambiguation)
cursor
1978-1982 DISK MAGAZINE
Cursor (magazine)
(cursors)
On a computer screen, the cursor is a small shape that indicates where anything that is typed by the user will appear. (COMPUTING)
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Cursor
1978-1982 DISK MAGAZINE
Cursor (magazine)
·noun Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
cursor
1978-1982 DISK MAGAZINE
Cursor (magazine)
1. <hardware> A visually distinct mark on a display indicating
where newly typed text will be inserted. The cursor moves as
text is typed and, in most modern editors, can be moved around
within a document by the user to change the insertion point.
2. <database> In SQL, a named control structure used by an
application program to point to a row of data. The position
of the row is within a table or view, and the cursor is
used interactively so select rows from columns.
(1996-12-27)
Wikipedia
Cursor
Cursor may refer to:
- Cursor (user interface), an indicator used to show the current position for user interaction on a computer monitor or other display device
- Cursor (databases), a control structure that enables traversal over the records in a database
- Cursor, a value that is the position of an object in some known data structure, a predecessor of pointers
- Cursor (slide rule), indicates corresponding points on scales that are not adjacent to each other
- Cursor Models, made for the Mercedes Benz Museum, and as promotional models
- Cursor (magazine), an early magazine distributed on cassette from 1978 and into the early 1980s
- Cursor, a holographic sidekick character from the TV series Automan
Examples of use of cursor
1. It‘s also unclear whether you‘re supposed to press "enter" or the right cursor control to advance, and counterintuitively, the left cursor control doesn‘t go back a menu layer.
2. CALLER: What‘s a ‘sea–prompt‘? OPERATOR: Never mind, can you move your cursor around the screen?
3. First, Mr Nagle learned to move a computer cursor by focusing his thoughts on the task.
4. He designed the website, PaulBurrellrvm.com on which, with unbelievable tackiness, the cursor is a coronet.
5. Now the 53–year–old is able to move a cursor around a virtual keyboard.