computer mouse

1. 1.

   a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad

   “a mouse takes much more room than a trackball”

   Synonymsmouse

   Broaderelectronic device

   Partsmouse button

Questions about computer mouse

What does computer mouse mean?

computer mouse means "a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad".

What is another word for computer mouse?

Close synonyms include mouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is computer mouse a common word?

computer mouse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.