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Arrow on a screen
Answer for the clue "Arrow on a screen ", 6 letters:
cursor
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer science, a database cursor is a control structure that enables traversal over the records in a database. Cursors facilitate subsequent processing in conjunction with the traversal, such as retrieval, addition and removal of database records. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN key ▪ This is placed between two staves and moved to wherever you want it by using the cursor keys . ▪ These people supposedly cherished cursor keys and took deep offense at their absence on Macintosh. ▪ That said, editing ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cursor \Cur"sor\ (k?r"s?r), n. [L., a runner. See Cursitor .] Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
computer sense is 1967 extension of name for the sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument (1590s), earlier "a running messenger" (c.1300), from Latin cursor "runner," also "errand-boy," from curs- , past participle stem of currere "to run" (see ...
Usage examples of cursor.
At a guess, he called the furies of the southern air to assist Amara or one of the other Cursors northeither to the capital or to the Valley itself.
Now he was turning onto La Cienega and the little green cursor on the clash was doing the same.
Smith input the English approximation, activated the conversion program and in a moment the Arabic script equivalent to the words Iftah ya simsim appeared in the wake of the blinking amber cursor, which moved right to left, the direction Arabic script was read.
He fiddled with the control, producing a pair of cursors which indicated two systems: Griffin and Redwing.
He took her into the volunteer center, where volunteers ignored ringing telephones and blinking cursors on computer screens to stare.
Kristian zipped the cursor to the item he wanted, clicked on it, and the screen changed again.
When the menu appeared on the screen, she moved the cursor down to the program she wanted and clicked the mouse.
He tapped out the appropriate code and saw the cursor outline a second orbit, deviating by several degrees from the earlier one and with the return path intersecting the orbit of the fifth planet and spiraling in!
Then he transferred his hands from the trackball and cursor keys to the laptop’.
As a way to get started, he pulled the chair close to the keyboard and pressed the cursor keys.
Sandra tapped the cursor keys on her palmtop computer, consulting her list of questions.
He moved the cursor to Financial Market Information and hit enter.
Johnnie snapped open the cover of his own controls, slid the magenta cursor along the docks with his joystick, and began tapping a function key.
But Kelly was not listening, she was pressing more buttons and moving the cursor, already trying to get something to happen, to get a help screen, something.
Honor and Henries looked at him, and he used the holo controls to throw a cursor into the display.