cursor

plural cursors · alternative obsolete cursour

1. A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.

   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[…]

   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

2. computingA moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.

   Synonyms: pointer

3. computingAn indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.

   Synonyms: caret

4. computingA reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
5. computingA design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.

   Synonyms: iterator pattern

present singular third person cursors · participle present cursoring · participle past cursored · past cursored · alternative obsolete cursour

1. intransitivecomputingTo navigate by means of the cursor keys.

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

   1990 May 28, InfoWorld, volume 12, number 22