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mouseover
[ mous-oh-ver ]
noun
- a website feature that generates the appearance of a pop-up message, image, or hyperlink when a pointer is directed, as by a mouse, over a specific item on the screen:
Thanks to mouseovers, our online shoppers can quickly view details about the products of interest to them.
mouseover
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noun
- computing (on the page of a website) an item, esp a graphic, that changes or pops up when the pointer of a mouse moves over it
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Origin of mouseover1
Example Sentences
The desktop app offers customizable actions on mouseover, in addition to the swipe gestures on mobile.
In many of Amazon's own apps, slightly tilting the phone away from you will also bring up little pieces of information, similar to mouseover text on a Web site.
This phenomenon might already be morphing into something else, because you can't "mouseover" something on a touchscreen phone or tablet – a touch is already interpreted as a "click".
Perhaps "mouseover" will be replaced by "fingerhover".
Questionable spellings underlined with original spelling contained in "mouseover"* text box.
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