desktop
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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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the main screen display on a personal computer, from which windows may be opened and programs run |
| 2. | (modifier) denoting a computer system, esp for word processing, that is small enough to use at a desk |
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Computing Dictionary
desktop definition
1.
The WIMP interface and desktop metaphor was invented at Xerox PARC and popularised by the Apple Macintosh.
2.
(2007-09-12)
Example sentences
The new models can also hold scores of electronic mail messages transferred from a desktop computer.
Clients are desktop or mobile-device applications that access microblogs' content.
The evidence, thus laid out on the gray metal desktop, seems clear.
We have also included instructions on how to bookmark our site as well as create a shortcut to our site from your desktop.
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