multi-touch

Of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.

Adjective

  1. Of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.
    • The PowerPad is used to produce multi-touch, multi-color graphics. - 1983, Personal Computing, volume 7, page 347:
    • Mr. Jobs seized on the multitouch technology after Apple product designers proposed it as a “safari pad,” a portable Web surfing appliance. - 2007 June 29, John Markoff, “Chiefs Defend Slow Network for the iPhone”, in...
    • Its trackpad is multi-touch and quite comfortable, though we found its sensitivity too high. - 2008, “Asus Eee PC 901” (review), in MaximumPC (December), South San Francisco: Future US, p 64

Origin

From multi- + touch.

Forms

multitouch

Noun

  1. Multi-touch capability.
    • But the performance of multi-touch is not so impressive. - 2004, Wontaek Seo, Beom-joon Cho, “Efficient Segmentation Path Generation”, in Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 11th...
    • One incredible example comes from Thomas Robinson [. . .] ; he creates a virtual light table that pulls in Flickr photos, then uses multitouch to allow you to use two fingers to pinch, zoom, rotate, or simply move the...

Forms

multitouch

Hypernyms

touch