: a movable item used to mark a position: such as
a
: a transparent slide with a line attached to a slide rule
b
: a visual cue (such as a flashing vertical line) on a video display that indicates position (as for data entry)
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That’s done via a minigame where players move a cursor along a grid and to an endpoint.
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Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
Last year Microsoft also migrated clock settings, keyboard character repeat delay, mouse cursor blink rate, and formatting for time, number, and currency into the Settings app.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2026
The Apple IIe, which shipped in 1983, boasted a full ASCII character set with lowercase letters, four-way cursor control, a joystick connector, and 64K of memory (expandable to 128K)—all upgrades that made the computer much more competitive with Atari and Commodore.
—Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
In 2006 a consortium of researchers called BrainGate reported that a BCI allowed people with paralysis to control a computer cursor and operate a prosthetic hand.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
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Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
Last year Microsoft also migrated clock settings, keyboard character repeat delay, mouse cursor blink rate, and formatting for time, number, and currency into the Settings app.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2026
The Apple IIe, which shipped in 1983, boasted a full ASCII character set with lowercase letters, four-way cursor control, a joystick connector, and 64K of memory (expandable to 128K)—all upgrades that made the computer much more competitive with Atari and Commodore.
—Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
In 2006 a consortium of researchers called BrainGate reported that a BCI allowed people with paralysis to control a computer cursor and operate a prosthetic hand.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026
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cursor
noun
cur·sor
ˈkər-sər 
: a mark (as a bright blinking spot) on a computer display screen that shows the place where the user is working
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