light pen
a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
Origin of light pen
1- Also called light pencil.
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How to use light pen in a sentence
I headed back the way we had come until I was sure they couldn't hear me or see me with their black light pencils.
The Old Martians | Roger Phillips Graham
British Dictionary definitions for light pen
computing
a rodlike device which, when applied to the screen of a cathode-ray tube, can detect the time of passage of the illuminated spot across that point thus enabling a computer to determine the position on the screen being pointed at
a penlike device, used to read bar codes, that emits light and determines the intensity of that light as reflected from a small area of an adjacent surface
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