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cursor | American Dictionary

cursor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɜr·sər/
a movable symbol on a computer screen that shows the point where you can change a text or image:
You can move the cursor by using the mouse.

cursor | Business English

cursor
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkɜːsər/us
IT
a small image such as a line or an arrow on a computer screen that can be moved to show, for example, where numbers or text can be entered:
Position the cursor in the box on the web page, right-click the mouse, and select Paste.

Examples of cursor

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In this task the children had to move their cursor quickly and precisely to specific targets on their screen.
Visual feedback of the four dimensions was presented as two square grids each containing a cursor, again emphasising the pairwise division.
The mouse cursor will often change shapes or help to direct light sources.
Each text widget has a cursor whose location is defined by two numbers: the line number and the column number.
The joystick and cursor are spatially separated and not physically connected.
Using the joystick, the user controls a cursor to make selections from a menu screen.
With two windows open, you can scroll either or both without moving the cursor between windows.
The weight of a lamp can be considered as a measure of the lamp's influence on the cursor position for that lamp's beam colour.
The observer identified the different appearing square using the cursor.
The indentation points are given by the list of column numbers at which to position the cursor for a possible indentation for the current line.
When precision requirements were low, the arrowhead cursor shape influenced movement durations instead, with the effects again as might be expected from illusory figures.
The other two pins are used to represent the cursor of a word processor.
The editor focus is analogous to the cursor in a string editor: it marks the place to which editing commands apply.
They continued to tilt in the direction of cursor displacement under these new conditions.
The acousmograph enables one to select a passage on the screen and then listen to it whilst following the cursor on the graphic.
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