Cursor

Cursor

A cursor is a moving placement or pointer that indicates a position. English-speakers have used the term with this meaning since the 16th century, for a wide variety of movable or mobile position-markers.

The literal meaning of the original Latin word cursor expresses the idea of someone or something that runs. Especially in the plural, Cursores 'runners', it was the name of certain functions, originally messengers. Cursor was also a Roman cognomen used by gens Papiria.

The word cursor may refer to any of the following:

  • Cursor (slide rules)
  • Cursor (typewriters)
  • Cursor (computers)
  • Cursor (databases)
  • Cursor Models, which were made for the Mercedes Benz Museum, and perhaps as promotional models.
  • Cursor (magazine), an early computer-based "magazine" that was distributed on cassette in the late 1970s. Each issue contained programs, utilities, and games and was a forerunner of today's computer magazines that come packaged with CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. Cursor was produced for users of the Commodore PET.
  • Cursor, a holographic sidekick character from the TV series Automan, with the ability to "draw" physical objects in real space

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  • Cursor — Cursor …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • cursor — CURSÓR, cursoare, s.n. Dispozitiv mic (de metal) care alunecă de a lungul unei rigle sau al unei tije gradate sau care se învârteşte în jurul unei piese circulare gradate, permiţând citirea gradaţiilor. – Din fr. curseur, lat. cursor. Trimis de… …   Dicționar Român

  • Cursor — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Cursor puede referirse a: Cursor, en informática, barra horizontal o vertical que indica la posición de la entrada de texto. Cursor, en una base de datos, estructura de control utilizada para el recorrido (y… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Cursor — Cursor: Das gegen Ende des 20. Jh.s aus gleichbed. engl. cursor übernommene Substantiv steht für »Zeichen auf dem Computerbildschirm, das anzeigt, an welcher Stelle die nächste Eingabe erscheint«. Das engl. cursor bedeutet ursprünglich »Läufer«,… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

  • cursor — cur‧sor [ˈkɜːsə ǁ ˈkɜːrsər] noun [countable] COMPUTING a small mark or light that can be moved around a computer screen to show where you are working: • Move the cursor onto the character you want to remove. * * * cursor UK US /ˈkɜːsər/ noun [C]… …   Financial and business terms

  • cursor — |ô| s. m. 1. Pequena peça móvel que corre ao longo de outra em certos instrumentos ou objetos (ex.: o cursor do fecho ecler partiu se). 2.  [Astronomia] Fio de micrômetro. 3.  [Religião] Mensageiro do Papa. 4.  [Antigo] Corredor do estádio. 5. … …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • cursor — sustantivo masculino 1. Área: informática Señal luminosa que sirve de indicador en la pantalla de los ordenadores: El cursor debes llevarlo siempre donde vayas a empezar a escribir. 2. Pieza pequeña que se desliza a lo largo de otra mayor… …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • cursor — (Del lat. cursor, ōris, corredor). 1. 1. m. Electr. Marca movible, por lo común luminosa, en forma de circulito, flecha o signo semejante, que sirve como indicador en la pantalla de diversos aparatos, p. ej., de un computador. 2. Mec. Pieza… …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • Cursor [2] — Cursor, Familie der Papiria gens: 1) Lucius Papirius Cursor, war 326 v. Chr. Consul; er wurde 325 Dictator gegen die Samniter u. war erst unglücklich, weil sich das Heer, wegen seiner Härte gegen den Magister equitum, Q. Fabius, absichtlich… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • CURSOR — (Sun Cursor file) (Computing » File Extensions) …   Abbreviations dictionary

  • cursor — computer sense is 1967 extension of name for the sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument (1590s), earlier a running messenger (c.1300), from L. cursor runner, also errand boy, from curs , pp. stem of currere to run (see CURRENT (Cf.… …   Etymology dictionary

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