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desk⋅top
[desk-top] 
–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. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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desktop
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The WIMP interface and desktop metaphor was invented at Xerox PARC and popularised by the Apple Macintosh.
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(2007-09-12)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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