cursor

Meanings

Noun

• 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

Verb

• To navigate by means of the cursor keys.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin cursor, from currō + -or. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.