scroll

scroll

To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window. Scrolling implies continuous and smooth movement, a line, character or pixel at a time, as if the data were on a paper scroll being rolled behind the screen. See auto scroll.

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scroll [skrōl]

(architecture)

An ornament consisting of a spirally wound band, either as a running ornament or a terminal.

(computer science)

To move information in an electronic display up, down, left, or right, so that new information appears and some of the existing information is moved away.

(geology)

One of a series of crescent-shaped sediments on the inner bank of a moving channel, deposited there by the stream.

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scroll

early form of manuscript; symbolic of learning. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 85]

See : Wisdom

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1.		SCROLL - String and Character Recording Oriented Logogrammatic Language. ["SCROLL - A Pattern Recording Language", M. Sargent, Proc SJCC 36 (1970)].
2.	(interface)	scroll - (From a scroll of paper) To change the portion of a document displayed in a window or on a VDU screen. In a graphical user interface, scrolling is usually controlled by the user via scroll bars, whereas on a VDU the text scrolls up automatically as lines of data are output at the bottom of the screen.