Cursor Definition

kûrsər
noun
On a computer screen, a movable indicator, such as an underline, a stylized figure, or a spot of highlighting, that indicates one's current interactive position within the display, as where in text a typed keystroke would appear, which icon would be affected by a click of the mouse, etc.
Webster's New World

A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.

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(graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.

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(graphical user interface) 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".

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(databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.

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verb

(intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.

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Other Word Forms of Cursor

Noun

Singular:
cursor
Plural:
cursors

Origin of Cursor

  • Middle English runner from Latin from cursus past participle of currere to run kers- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (“agentive suffix”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

    From Wiktionary

Cursor Sentence Examples

  • Press shift+tab to back up, moving the cursor one cell to the left.

  • He was surnamed Cursor from his swiftness of foot.

  • Widget Specifies the TextField widget Specifies the TextField widget ID position Specifies the position of the insert cursor.

  • It does not update the cursor and does not per- form wrapping.

  • The main part of the screen contains the paper on which you write and the cursor blinks away at line zero, column zero.

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Words Starting With

CCUCUR

Words Ending With

RORSOR

Unscrambles

cursor

Words Starting With C and Ending With R

Starts With C & Ends With RStarts With CU & Ends With RStarts With C & Ends With OR

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With C6 Letter Words Ending With R