joystick

joystick

1. Informal the control stick of an aircraft or of any of various machines

2. Computing a lever by means of which the display on a screen may be controlled used esp for games, flight simulators, etc

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joystick [′jȯi‚stik]

(aerospace engineering)

A lever used to control the motion of an aircraft; fore-and-aft motion operates the elevators while lateral motion operates the ailerons.

(engineering)

A two-axis displacement control operated by a lever or ball, for XY positioning of a device or an electron beam.

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(hardware, games)

joystick - A device consisting of a hand held stick that pivots about one end and transmits its angle in two dimensions to a computer. Joysticks are often used to control games, and usually have one or more push-buttons whose state can also be read by the computer. Most I/O interface cards for IBM PCs have a joystick (game control) port.