cursor

See also: Cursor

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)

Noun

cursor (plural cursors)

  1. A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
  2. (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.
  3. (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".
  4. (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.
  5. (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly, also known as the iterator pattern.

Translations

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Verb

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

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

See also

Latin

Etymology

From currō (“run”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cursor m (genitive cursōris); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cursor cursōrēs
genitive cursōris cursōrum
dative cursōrī cursōribus
accusative cursōrem cursōrēs
ablative cursōre cursōribus
vocative cursor cursōrēs

Descendants

References

  • cursor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cursor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • cursor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cursor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor, cursorem.

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

  1. cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
  2. (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor, cursorem.

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

  1. (computing) cursor

Synonyms

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