cursor
A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
Noun
- A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
- Besides, the Reader must know, if a Brazen graduated Semi-Circle were hung on the Poles here, with an erected moveable Pin, or Cursor on it, there would be no need of the Holes[…]in each Parallel of the Globe, for the...
- A moving icon or other representation, of the position of the pointing device.
Synonyms: pointer
- An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
Synonyms: caret
- A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
- A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
Synonyms: iterator pattern
Origin
Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Forms
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Derived
cursorjacking cursorless firehose cursor postcursor precursor
Verb
- To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
- The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists. - 1990 May 28, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 22: