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US
/ˈdɛskˌtɑp/
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[ UK /dˈɛsktɒp/ ]
[ UK /dˈɛsktɒp/ ]
NOUN
- the top of a desk
- (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
How To Use desktop In A Sentence
- Having an option to use one would be good because this could replace a desktop, but it would have to have an SSD of some large capacity or an EEPROM which would contain the entire OS, be upgradable (by the user) and a battery life that would make this the toy of toys to have. Why I Think Apple’s Touchscreen Netbook Is Real
- It has also been claimed that part or all of the device's memory can be mounted on a host computer's desktop as a removable storage device.
- One way is to make it easier for a user to default to your engine - by embedding a toolbar on his desktop, say, or putting a search box into his browser window.
- ‘Things that we look forward to using from them are commoditized services such as desktop support,’ he explains.
- Using software to tie together those desktops into a single ‘grid,’ it assembled, in effect, a supercomputer to run its analytical software.
- * occasionally, on colleagues 'computers running Mac OS X; nowadays, touch wood, we see this rarely but past reports include: boots up and the desktop appears but it will not open anything - all i get is the' beachball 'rotating continually. Discussions: Message List - root
- The Parallels Desktop beta is available for download through the Parallels Desktop for Mac online forum.
- On return home, was remembering my brother's good suggestion that changing mouse mat might be the answer to the frantic behaviour of the cursor on my desktop machine; since I bought the desktop an emac, with optical mouse it has skipped around erratically at seemingly-random times. Wriggly thing in hair
- This could be your web server, a desktop computer running a database client application, or both.
- One day there was a document file on the desktop of the computer.