CURSOR Definition & Meaning

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cursor

[ kur-ser ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Digital Technology. a movable, sometimes blinking, marker that indicates the position on a display screen where the next character entered from the keyboard will appear, or where user action is possible.
a sliding object, as the lined glass on a slide rule, that can be set at any point on a scale.

cursor

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noun

the sliding part of a measuring instrument, esp a transparent sliding square on a slide rule
any of various means, typically a flashing bar or underline, of identifying a particular position on a computer screen, such as the insertion point for text

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of cursor¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English in the earlier sense “runner, courier,” from Latin: literally, “runner, runner in a race, messenger, footman,” equivalent to cur(rere) “to run” + -sor, variant of -tor; cursor def 2 was first recorded in 1590–1600 and cursor def 1 in 1965–70; course, -tor

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When Noland awoke from the surgery which installed the device, he said he was initially able to control a cursor on a screen by thinking about wiggling his fingers.

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For me right now, once the orange Cheeto got into the presidency again, I told myself, I am going to use my pen, my page, my cursor as my sword.

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A paralyzed Arizona man became the first human to receive the implant in January and has since moved a cursor, browsed the internet and played video games with this thoughts.

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Working with engineers, Mr. Arbaugh, 30, trained computer programs to translate the firing of neurons in his brain into the act of moving a cursor up, down and around.

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He appeared in the video beside Neuralink’s brain interface software lead Bliss Chapman, and answered questions about how the technology worked, saying that it required him to “imagine the cursor moving”.

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