cursor

/kɜɹsəɹ/ · noun

Meaning

A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device
An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place
A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it
A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly
To navigate by means of the cursor keys.

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