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US
/ˈdʒɔɪˌstɪk/
]
[ UK /dʒˈɔɪstɪk/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɔɪstɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers
How To Use joystick In A Sentence
- New pop-up menus now allow access to systems such as aircon and seat heating and there's a new central control knob that works like a joystick. Motoring
- The panel looked like an oversized video-game controller, complete with a joystick. MEN IN BLACK II©: THE MOVIE NOVEL
- PC owners will want to either plug in a gamepad or a joystick, because trying to accurately fly using arrow keys will make you want to throw your monitor out of the window.
- The embryologist guides the needle into the egg using joystick directed servomotors
- Immersion's haptic technology first appeared in a PC joystick in 1996, and with Microsoft the company developed the DirectX force feedback API.
- It was a tandem-seated airplane with a control wheel up front and a joystick in the back.
- The joystick also controls playback: nudge it up for play/pause, down for stop.
- As the first song played, I pressed different buttons on the joystick and keyboard and heard notes, chords, cadenzas, arpeggios, and even special effects typical of the piano.
- While there is the ability to use a joystick, the keyboard is a better choice to let you pull some hot skate moves.
- Everyone who has a computer has a keyboard, but not everyone has a joystick or gamepad.