请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 light pen
释义

light pen

SEE SYNONYMS FOR light pen ON THESAURUS.COM

noun Computers.

a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
Also called light pencil.

Origin of light pen

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby light pen

lightning stroke, light-o'-love, light on, light opera, light out, light pen, light pipe, lightplane, light pollution, lightproof, light quantum
Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

British Dictionary definitions for light pen

light pen

noun

computing
  1. a rodlike device which, when applied to the screen of a cathode-ray tube, can detect the time of passage of the illuminated spot across that point thus enabling a computer to determine the position on the screen being pointed at
  2. a penlike device, used to read bar codes, that emits light and determines the intensity of that light as reflected from a small area of an adjacent surface
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
随便看

 

英语词典包含192737条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/11 23:15:35