flying mouse
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Russian лету́чая мышь (letúčaja myšʹ, “flying mouse”).
Noun
[edit]flying mouse (plural flying mice)
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(Idiurus macrotis)
- Any species of rodent in the genus Idiurus, native to parts of tropical Africa, which have the ability to glide.
- (computing) An input device like a mouse that can be lifted from a surface and moved in three dimensions.
- 1992, Maurice Sharp, “INDUSTRY: VPL's MicroCosm - Clarification from VPL”, in sci.virtual-worlds (Usenet):
- The system I quoted […] was a full system: 486 PC 8megRAM 140HD, 2 DVI boards, 1 Ascension Bird flying mouse (6D mouse with 3 buttons, used for navigation and interaction), 1 VirtualResearch Headmounted display, 1 Logitech Sonic 6D tracker for headmount, Sense8 software and environment.
- 2008, Dan Gookin, Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies, page 165:
- Oh, and those wacky nonstandard mice — including the infamous 3D flying mouse — they need their own software to do their tricks.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]flying mouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Idiurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Idiurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons