noun

• 1A movable indicator on a computer screen identifying the point that will be affected by input from the user, for example showing where typed text will be inserted.

  ‘The device is coupled to a host computer that displays a cursor in a graphical environment, such as a GUI, on a display screen.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘This allows the user to move the cursor to the edge of the screen and as a result, the camera will move in the same direction.’
  • ‘Make the input cursor hop to the next field after a user finishes the current field.’
  • ‘Like most first person adventure games, you move the cursor across the screen until the icon changes to indicate a new action.’
  • ‘In addition to graphics design, the program allows for extracting and modifying standard icons or cursors stored in Windows executables, libraries and cursor files.’
  • ‘There are a few ways to manipulate the cursor on the screen.’
  • ‘The large thumb pad is used to navigate the mouse cursor around the screen, and you have a left and right mouse click button as well.’
  • ‘This is dynamic - as the cursor moves, the input information trails along with it, changing as necessary.’
  • ‘You don't have to make contact with the screen before the cursor shows up; merely hovering does the trick.’
  • ‘As the number of reports per second increases, the motion of the cursor on the screen becomes more fluid.’
  • ‘When in Free Flight mode, players simply move the cursor around the screen and the ship follows.’
  • ‘Vocab lets users hold the cursor over a word and get an instant translation without having to leave the site.’
  • ‘Depending on how far from the centre of the screen your cursor is, your ship will turn faster and harder.’
  • ‘A prime example of this is something as simple as moving the cursor around the screen.’
  • ‘Put your finger on the top left of the pad, and that's where the cursor appears on the screen.’
  • ‘Joan felt his eyes on her as she waved the computer screensaver away with the cursor.’
  • ‘When children want to move a cursor towards the top of their computer screen, they typically lift up the computer mouse, notes the designer.’
  • ‘Most people use a computer by moving a mouse, which directs a cursor around on the machine's screen.’
  • ‘The entire length of the lesion interface was measured with a cursor led by the computer mouse.’
  • ‘A series of messages pops up as users' cursors roll over images of the Sock Puppet.’

  Synonyms

  stick, rod, cane, pole, laser pointer, cursor

  1. 1.1mainly historical The transparent slide engraved with a hairline that is part of a slide rule and is used for marking a point on the rule while bringing a point on the central sliding portion up to it.
     ‘The twocycle log scale was necessary because the rules had no cursor.’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Like other Routledge-type slide rules produced by Stanley, the Hogg rule had no cursor.’
     • ‘The first step was to position a cursor at the entry of the pipette.’