Word Finder - pointer

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Anything that points or is used for pointing.

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A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.

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• fescue

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A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.

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• hand
• needle

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A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.

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A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.

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• reference

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An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.

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• cursor

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(chiefly in the plural) A tip, a bit of advice.

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The instructor gave me some pointers on writing a good paper.

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• advice

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(in combinations) Something worth a given number of points.

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a ten-pointer

The lines traced out by the vibrating pointer are thus prevented from overlapping when more than one turn is given to the cylinder.

A comparison with the method of a material pointer, attached to the parts whose rotation is under observation, and viewed through a microscope, is of interest.

The weighing is conducted in the usual way by vibrations, except when the weight be small; it is then advisable to bring the pointer to zero, an operation rendered necessary by the damping due to the adhesion of water to the fibre.

A pointer to the XEvent that triggered the callback.

It is probable that pointer blood was introduced in the course of shaping the various breeds of setter.

This may be a useful pointer toward ID as Ive not seen chasers doing this.

The pointer cursor image is not included in the returned contents.

And yet the reader is provided with a pointer in the rather fussy pun on ' odyssey ' .

The mouse pointer should change from a magnifying glass to a normal pointer and should let you do some quick editing before printing.

It does, however, have significant advantages over the pointer method which far outweigh the minor drawback of adding extra code.

We won 5-0 with Jimmy Robson bagging a hat trick whilst Trevor Meredith and Ray Pointer were both still on the scoresheet.

Also, the amount of pointer indirection is taken into account when determining similarity.

The corresponding argument is a pointer to an unsigned integer.

But I've never experienced " pointer lockups and such " .

I have not misread the pointer of the scales to cheat the buyer.

Use the pointer to indicate the outlier in the data " .

To enter the user mode from the (power on) supervisor mode, the user stack pointer is first preset to $ 2000.

The address member specifies a pointer to the address.

Users with mouses can hover the pointer over an image to read the text description.

To copy an article, simply left click and drag the mouse pointer to select the desired text.

Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?

To resize a floating control bar move the mouse pointer over the edge of the control bar window.

Using a dangling pointer to access something that isn't there any more can make a real mess of things.

A non-NULL pointer will generally be returned except in out-of-memory conditions or serious errors such as inability to send the command to the backend.

Detailed Description A smart pointer to an actual image.

Or to put it another way, Java has pointers, but no pointer arithmetic.

Place the mouse pointer over an area of the bar not occupied by buttons or fields.

The remote control with laser pointer now gives you the option of controlling the lamp mode.

A register called the stack pointer (SP) points to the top of the stack.

If the iterator has advanced past the last item in the container, a nil pointer will be returned.

Attractive silver dial with square pattern on inner part of the dial and contrasting sweep second hand red arrow pointer.

Such a pointer can be referred to as an array pointer.

The three rings of indexing holes in the headstock pulley were engaged by a pointer mounted on a swinging bracket.

A pointer to the screen of the previous terminal is returned by the rou- tine.

Each time you kill, the " last yank " pointer moves to the newly made entry at the front of the ring.

D is the drum-head which gives the fraction of a revolution, d that which gives the whole number of revolutions, I is the index or pointer at which both drums are read.

The wire being paid out without slack measures the actual distance and speed over the ground, and the engineer in charge is relieved of all anxiety in estimating the depth from the scattered soundings of the preliminary survey, or in calculating the retarding strain required to produce the specified slack, since the brakesman merely has to follow the indications of the instrument and regulate the strain so as to keep the pointer at the figure required - an easy task, seeing that the ratio of speed of wire and cable is not affected by the motion of the ship, whatever be the state of the sea, whereas the will I',/ OW= o a ' 30 30 ao.

We may infer that the limits of efficiency in the two methods are the same when the length of the pointer is equal to the width of the mirror.

Minor improvements in tangent sights certainly were made, notably an automatic clamp, but quadrant elevation was mainly used, and in the case of guns equipped with position-finders (see Range-Finder) the guns could be layed for direction by means, of a graduated arc on the emplacement and a pointer on the mounting.

Sage-hens, grouse and small birds the coyote hunts successfully alone, quartering over the ground like a trained pointer until he succeeds in locating his bird, when he drops flat in the grass and creeps forward like a cat until close enough for the final spring."

This function takes a pointer, sops, to an array of semaphore operation structures.

Segment registers and the stack pointer will not be passed between modes.

The stack frame can also be accessed via the frame pointer.

The XtSuperclass function returns a pointer to the widget 's superclass class structure.

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The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon.

Also, warping the pointer can cause problems for users of absolute location pointing devices (like graphics tablets).

A white pointer killer shark has been feeding on surfers and bathers just off the beach, it 's ' Jaws ' for real.

By spinning the ball with your thumb, you can move the pointer on your computer desktop just as you normally would by moving the mouse itself.

Some puzzles allow you to select the first letter and drag the pointer to the last letter.