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prompt

1. Commerce
a. the time limit allowed for payment of the debt incurred by purchasing goods or services on credit
b. the contract specifying this time limit
c. a memorandum sent to a purchaser to remind him of the time limit and the sum due
2. an aid to the operator of a computer in the form of a question or statement that appears on the screen showing that the equipment is ready to proceed and indicating the options available
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prompt

[prämpt]
(computer science)
A message or format displayed on the screen of a computer terminal that requires the user to respond in some way before processing can continue.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

prompt

A message displayed on screen that requests action from the user, such as "Enter Employee Name" or "Press 1 to Continue."

Command Prompts Are Brief
Command-driven systems do not offer a menu and require that users know the commands beforehand and type them in correctly spelled. When ready to accept the next command, they display a simple prompt such as the dollar sign ($) in Unix and Linux. In the DOS command line, the prompt is the drive letter, folder name and right arrow (>); for example: c:\backup>. The command line prompt in dBASE is nothing more than a single dot (.).
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Francis met the mastery criterion for construct 1 (physical prompting) in 43 training sessions while he met the mastery criterion for construct 2 (vocal prompting) in 25 training sessions (Figure 2).
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Anna rarely played with toys without adult prompting and often was alone in the book or music areas of the classroom turning the pages of books or playing musical instruments.
After conducting the probe trial for each of the three stimuli in a given set, the training session began with that set of stimuli using the prompting strategy assigned to that set.
A second implication of improved notetaking concerns the usefulness of student notes in prompting application of material.
The results are presented as odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals for the effects of prompting on recall, and Wald statistics with significance levels for the interactions between prompting and gender, age and education.
Key issues with recall measures are the nature and type of prompting given.
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