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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

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.