cursorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /kɜɹsəɹ/, [ˈkʰɜ˞sə˞]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɜːsə/, [ˈkʰɜːsə]
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)

名詞

cursor (plural cursors)

1. A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
   • 1679, Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, Joseph Moxon, The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more, page 150:

     Besides, the Reader must know, if a Brazen graduated Semi-Circle were hung on the Poles here, with an erected moveable Pin, or Cursor on it, there would be no need of the Holes […] in each Parallel of the Globe, for the true Composing of it […]

2. (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation, usually called a pointer, of the position of the pointing device.
3. (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and sometimes called a caret, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
4. (databases) 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. (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.

   Synonym: iterator pattern

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動詞

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

1. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
   • 1990 May 28, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 22:

     The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.

参考

• electronic display
• GUI
• pointer

アナグラム

• Curros

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkur.sor/, [ˈkʊrs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkur.sor/, [ˈkursor]

名詞

cursor m (genitive cursōris); third declension

1. a runner, racer
2. a courier, messenger, post
3. a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

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参照

• “cursor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cursor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cursor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cursor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray