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cursor

part of a computer UI that indicates the position (textual or graphical) that operations will affect
Class type of: symbol, graphical user interface element Q107602

Facts

5 properties
Subclass of
symbol, graphical user interface element[2][3]
Part of
user interface, graphical user interface, text-based user interface[4][5][6]
Different from
mouse cursor, database cursor[8][9]
Discoverer or inventor
Ivan Sutherland[1]
Start time
June 1962[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en cursor en caret en insertion point ar منزلقة ar مشيرة cs kurzor cs karet da Indsætningspunktsmarkør da Indsætningspunkt da Musemarkør da markør de Eingabezeiger de Einfügemarke de Eingabemarkierung de Schreibmarke es Zona sensible fa مکان نما fa مکان‌نما fi kohdistin fi kursori
🔖 Identifiers · 14
OpenAlex ID
C150202949
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Cursor-design1-arrow-steep.svg ↗
De Agostini ID
cursóre
Freebase ID
/m/06mfbd
KBpedia ID
CursorGUIComponent
Lex ID
markør
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
52754923
Open Library subject ID
cursor
Quora topic ID
Cursors
ScienceDirect topic ID
engineering/computer-cursor
Stack Exchange tag
stackoverflow.com
Treccani Vocabulary ID
cursore
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Treccani's Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID
cursore
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Concept", "Cursor::5s6f4"]

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🔗 Connections
Part of 3
graphical user interface, user interface, text-based user interface
Different from 2
database cursor, mouse cursor
← Different from 2
database cursor, mouse cursor
Discoverer or inventor 1
Ivan Sutherland
Subclass of 1
symbol
Subtypes 1
mouse cursor
← FactGrid item ID 1
Bourguignon-sous-Coucy
← Uses 1
Sketchpad
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