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desk⋅top

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–adjective
1. small or compact enough to fit or be used on a desk: a desktop computer.
–noun
2. Computers. the primary display screen of a graphical user interface, on which various icons represent files, groups of files, programs, or the like, which can be moved, accessed, added to, put away, or thrown away in ways analogous to the handling of file folders, documents, notes, etc., on a real desk.
Origin:
1925–30; desk + top 1
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Desktop at Dell
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desk·top   (děsk'tŏp')   
n.  

  1. The top of a desk.

  2. Computer Science The background image of a display screen, on which windows, icons, and other graphical items appear.

adj.  Designed for use on a desk or table: a desktop telephone; a desktop computer.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Computing Dictionary

desktop
1. In a WIMP graphical user interface, the visual representation of a real desktop (the top surface of a piece of furniture) with documents, folders and a rubbish bin arranged on it. The user manipulates files on the computer by using a mouse to click and drag their representations (icons) on the desktop.
The WIMP interface and desktop metaphor was invented at Xerox PARC and popularised by the Apple Macintosh.
2. desktop computer.
(2007-09-12)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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