Cursor

Etymology
From cursor:, from curro: + -or:. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Noun

 * 1) A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
 * 2)  A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.
 * 3)  An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also referred to as "the caret".
 * 4)  A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
 * 5)  A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly, also know as the "Iterator" pattern.

Related terms

 * courier
 * current
 * cursive
 * cursory
 * recursive

Translations

 * Arabic: مؤشر
 * Bulgarian:, показалец, плъзгач
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 光標, 光标, 游標, 游标
 * Finnish: osoitin, kursori
 * French:
 * German: Cursor,


 * Icelandic: bendill
 * Italian: (all)
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: kursor
 * Russian: курсор,, указатель, движок
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: imleç

Verb

 * 1)  To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
 * 2) * 1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)
 * The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.

Etymology
From curro:.

Noun

 * 1) A runner, racer.
 * 2) A courier, messenger, post.
 * 3) A slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner.

Related terms

 * currāx
 * curriculum
 * currīlis
 * currō
 * currūlis


 * cursātiō
 * cursilitās
 * cursilitās


 * cursiō
 * cursitātiō
 * cursitō
 * cursō


 * cursōrius
 * cursuālis
 * cursūra
 * cursus

Descendants

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 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From cursor:.

Noun

 * 1) cursor

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