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point-and-click

point-and-click adjective: with which the user interacts by pointing and clicking, using a mouse or similar device.

Adjective

point-and-click (not comparable)

  1. With which the user interacts by pointing and clicking, using a mouse or similar device.
    • Carrying on the Sierra On-Line tradition of point-and-click adventure, Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen created two classics of the interactive movie genre.2007, Mark J P Wolf, The Video Game Explosion
  2. Point-and-shoot.

Words formed from point-and-click

Questions about point-and-click

What does point-and-click mean?
Point-and-click means with which the user interacts by pointing and clicking, using a mouse or similar device.
What part of speech is point-and-click?
Point-and-click is an adjective.

Words near point-and-click in the dictionary

  1. point the finger at
  2. point the way
  3. point up
  4. Point Wilson
  5. Point Wolstoncroft
  6. point-and-click
  7. point-and-drool
  8. point-and-shoot
  9. point-and-shoot camera
  10. point-and-shoot cameras
  11. point-and-shooter

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