cursor
- Noun. A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
- Noun. (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.
- Noun. (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".
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly, also known as the iterator pattern.
- Verb. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
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