cursor

About 3.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

pointer updatable poise declare traveller precursor pointing hover arrow mouse

Often followed by

to is on in over position at and will

Word family

cursors