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cursor a blinking I-beam shaped symbol on a computer screen showing the user
where the next character or object will appear. Depending upon the program
running, a cursor might also show as an arrow or a hand. The cursor can be
manipulated by using either the keyboard or the mouse. see mouse cursor.
customer support see technical support.
cut to remove either text or graphics from an application and save it in a temporary
holding area or buffer sometimes called a clipboard.
cut and paste to identify and isolate an element of a document and eliminate it
from a particular location, then replace it by moving it to another location
within or outside of the document. see copy, copy and paste, paste.
cyber (prefix) see Cybernetics.
Cybernetics the study of processing and assimilating information using electromechanical
devices. The term has evolved from its earlier meaning to refer
almost exclusively to computers.
cyberpunk a term loosely describing an antisocial individual conforming to a
peculiar lifestyle characterized by an obsession with both computers and the
dark side of the Internet.
cyberspace the abstract, non-physical world made up of networked computers
where people communicate, shop, study, research, play, socialize and otherwise
interact.
Cybertown a virtual community set in the latter half of the 21st Century that may
be accessed through the Netscape Web browser, Netscape Navigator.
Cybrarian an online research junkie.
Figure C.07. cursors
cycle
cycle the unit of measure which is a single oscillation of a computer’s CPU clock.
Programs running concurrently are competing for cycles.