[
US
/ˈtɹækˌbɔɫ/
]
NOUN
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an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a computer screen
a trackball is essentially an upside-down mouse
How To Use trackball In A Sentence
- Those of you who have read my stuff over the years know that I've been singing the praises of multi-button mice and trackballs for many years now.
- Trying to use it without a trackball is a good way to get frustrated.
- A lot of users these days are sick of dodgy mice with trackballs, they get dirty and become unreliable, not to mention it's a pain to have to pull them apart to clean the ball.
- I saw an orthopedic hand specialist, and I tested about a dozen ergonomic mice, trackballs and keyboard-trackball combinations.
- Let each geek decide themselves which is more important: a new nerf gun, a fancy trackball, or a better set of speakers?
- The trackballs allow either of the pilots to move his individual cursor, a large crosshair, among his three displays, seamlessly sliding from one to the other.
- Additionally, the software enables "chording" to assign additional functions to combinations of trackball buttons. MacTech News
- The game's arcade cabinet featured a trackball that could be pawed to control a marble through a number of devious mazes and obstacles.
- That includes all controls except the trackball, spinner, and three mouse buttons.
- Inside each cubicle was a desk holding a twenty-one-inch monitor, a trackball, and a keyboard. DEAD LINES
