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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Pointing device |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A pointing device is any hardware component that allows a user to input spatial data to a computer. CAD systems and Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) allow the user to control and provide data to the computer using physical "gestures" - point, click, and drag - typically by moving a hand-held mouse across the surface of the physical desktop and activating switches on the mouse. Movements of the pointing device are echoed on a graphical representation of a desktop on the screen by movements of the mouse pointer and other visual changes.
While the most common pointing device by far is the mouse, other kinds include trackball, touchpad, pointing stick, lightpen, various kinds of digitizing tablets which use a stylus, and even a special "data glove" that translates the user's movements to computer gestures.
"Pointing device" can also refer to a special "stick" (sometimes telecopic, to reduce the length when not in use), or a lamp with a narrow light beam that is pointed at a map, blackboard, slide screen, movie screen, etc.; sometimes the light is in the form of an arrow.
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Crosswords: POINTING DEVICE |
| Specialty definitions using "POINTING DEVICE": drunk mouse syndrome ♦ mind mouse, mouse ahead ♦ nipple mouse ♦ touchpad, tracker ball, Trackpoint. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pointing device | 55 |
computer pointing device | 10 |
wireless pointing device | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "POINTING DEVICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 指示装置 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しじそうち. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ointingpay eviceday координатное устройство. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-i-i-n-n-o-p-t-v" | |
-4 letters: coinvented, evidencing. | |
-5 letters: coediting, cognitive, convented, deceiving, deception, depicting, depiction, deveining, devoicing, digenetic, digitonin, endogenic, incentive, incepting, inception, inceptive, incipient, incondite, indicting, indiction, indigence, indigotin, invoicing, pedogenic, pigeonite. | |
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