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multi-touch

multi-touch adjective: of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.

Adjective

multi-touch (not comparable)

  1. Of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.
    • The PowerPad is used to produce multi-touch, multi-color graphics.1983, Personal Computing, volume 7, page 347
    • Mr. Jobs seized on the multitouch technology after Apple product designers proposed it as a “safari pad,” a portable Web surfing appliance.2007 June 29, John Markoff, “Chiefs Defend Slow Network for the iPhone”, in New York Times

Noun

multi-touch (uncountable)

  1. Multi-touch capability.
    • But the performance of multi-touch is not so impressive.2004, Wontaek Seo, Beom-joon Cho, “Efficient Segmentation Path Generation”, in Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 11th International Conference, Springer, page 445
    • One incredible example comes from Thomas Robinson [. . .] ; he creates a virtual light table that pulls in Flickr photos, then uses multitouch to allow you to use two fingers to pinch, zoom, rotate, or simply move the images around on the screen (Figure 12–16).2009, Brian Fling, Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps, Sebastopol, Cal.: O'Reilly, page 227

Examples of multi-touch in a sentence

  • Its trackpad is multi-touch and quite comfortable, though we found its sensitivity too high.2008, “Asus Eee PC 901” (review), in MaximumPC (December), South San Francisco: Future US, p 64
  • The multi-touch support on the iPhone provides a series of touch events consisting of smaller, individual parts of a single multi-touch gesture.2009, Jonathan Zdziarski, IPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore, Sebastopol, Cal.: O'Reilly, page 118:

Forms of multi-touch

alternative formmultitouch

Origin of multi-touch

From multi- + touch.

Questions about multi-touch

What does multi-touch mean?
Multi-touch means of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.
How do you use multi-touch in a sentence?
Its trackpad is multi-touch and quite comfortable, though we found its sensitivity too high.
What part of speech is multi-touch?
Multi-touch can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near multi-touch in the dictionary

  1. multi-temporal
  2. multi-tenant
  3. multi-tier
  4. multi-tool
  5. multi-tools
  6. multi-touch
  7. multi-user
  8. multi-user dungeon
  9. multi-user dungeons
  10. multi-valenced
  11. multi-vari chart

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