Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CURSOR

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Definitions of CURSOR

1. A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
2. (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.
3. (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
4. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
5. (GUI) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
6. (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.

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Examples of Using CURSOR in a Sentence

• This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer.
• Under Plan 9, UNIX's everything is a file metaphor is extended via a pervasive network-centric filesystem, and the cursor-addressed, terminal-based I/O at the heart of UNIX-like operating systems is replaced by a windowing system and graphical user interface without cursor addressing, although rc, the Plan 9 shell, is text-based.
• Movements of the pointing device are echoed on the screen by movements of the pointer (or cursor) and other visual changes.
• It was one of the first terminals to support ANSI escape codes for cursor control and other tasks, and added a number of extended codes for special features like controlling the status lights on the keyboard.
• ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators.
• Line editors predate screen-based text editors and originated in an era when a computer operator typically interacted with a teleprinter (essentially a printer with a keyboard), with no video display, and no ability to move a cursor interactively within a document.
• For example, Control-C, received from a teletypewriter or terminal, is interpreted as "interrupt the current program" in some command-line interfaces, and Control-E is interpreted by the Emacs text editor as "move the editor cursor to the end of the line".
• Myst has an optional "Zip" feature to assist in rapidly crossing areas already explored; when a lightning bolt cursor appears, players can click and skip several frames to another location.
• This changes the mouse cursor to a randomly selected 1 of 77 different "cursor fonts" as defined in the X11 specification.
• For common use as a pointer device, the dragging motion of a finger is translated into a finer, relative motion of the cursor on the output to the display on the operating system, analogous to the handling of a mouse that is lifted and put back on a surface.
• Eventually, text artists began incorporating this new level of flexibility to the existing medium of ASCII art by adding color to their text-based art, or animating their art by manipulating the cursor control codes.
• When traversing the list from left to right: supposing the cursor is at C, the previous item, B, may be XORed with the value in the link field (B⊕D).
• Most strips include an alt text, a one-sentence aside written in Onstad's voice that appears when the reader hovers the cursor over the strip.
• The cream-colored courser (Cursorius cursor) is a species of wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.
• A more sophisticated solution offers navigation using the cursor keys or the mouse (even in two dimensions; then the menu items appear or disappear similarly to the menus common in GUIs).
• Also, the pointer or cursor may not be the content of interest: for example, if the user presses a keyboard shortcuts that opens a menu, the magnified portion should jump to that menu.
• In fact the code in curses that optimizes moving the cursor from one place on the screen to another was borrowed from vi, which predated curses.
• Pokémon Channel is difficult to categorize into a genre, and the player navigates and selects things with a cursor.
• It moved away from MPC's aim to mimic the look and feel of Windows Media Player with updated player controls and provides additional features on top of MPC-HC such as a video preview tooltip when hovering the mouse cursor over the seek bar, as known from video platforms such as YouTube and Dailymotion, though many of these features, including the video preview on seekbar, were added to MPC-HC at a later date.
• The celebrity segments were discontinued and the science topic was introduced by a computer cursor which typed out the week's topic and subtopic of the day, replacing the visual films used in the first season.

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