[
US
/ˈkɝsɝ/
]
[ UK /kˈɜːsɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɜːsɐ/ ]
NOUN
- (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions
How To Use cursor In A Sentence
- This is dynamic - as the cursor moves, the input information trails along with it, changing as necessary.
- Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
- Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu, then flapped it shut.
- The amendments to the Armed Forces Act include a provision under which the contracts of the professional soldiers would include a paragraph for precursory agreement for participation in missions abroad.
- Too many high-risk prisoners are set loose after cursory checks, sometimes just a quick phone call. The Sun
- As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West.
- Will it prove a catalyst, a precursor to brighter things? Times, Sunday Times
- Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
- On return home, was remembering my brother's good suggestion that changing mouse mat might be the answer to the frantic behaviour of the cursor on my desktop machine; since I bought the desktop an emac, with optical mouse it has skipped around erratically at seemingly-random times. Wriggly thing in hair
- Biological research has often been a precursor to medical breakthroughs which benefit patients.