touchpad

English

A laptop computer touchpad

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK)

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Etymology

touch +‎ pad

Noun

touchpad ‎(plural touchpads)

1. (computing) A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.

Synonyms

• trackpad

Hypernyms

• pad

Translations

flat surface which is sensitive to touch

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 觸控板, 触控板 ‎(zuk¹ hung³ baan²)

  Mandarin: 觸摸板, 触摸板 ‎(chùmōbǎn), 觸控板 (zh), 触控板 ‎(chùkòngbǎn)

• Esperanto: tuŝplato
• Finnish: kosketuslevy (fi)
• French: pavé tactile (fr) m, touchpad (fr) m
• German: Touchpad n, Tastfeld n,

• Japanese: タッチパッド ‎(tatchipaddo)
• Norman: natte ès touches f
• Korean: 터치패드 ‎(teochipaedeu)
• Polish: touchpad (pl) m
• Portuguese: touchpad m
• Russian: тачпа́д (ru) m ‎(tačpád), се́нсорная пане́ль f ‎(sɛ́nsornaja panɛ́lʹ)
• Spanish: touchpad (es) m
• Turkish: dokunut (tr)

See also

• computer
• GUI
• mouse
• trackball

References

• Touchpad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Noun

touchpad m (plural touchpads)

1. (computing) touchpad (flat surface used to control the cursor)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:touchpad.