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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, photosensitive device connected to a computer and moved by hand over an output display in order to manipulate information in the computer.
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- noun computing A
pen -like device allowing acomputer user to interact with the screen display.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) a pointer that when pointed at a computer display senses whether or not the spot is illuminated
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