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Definition of Input device
1. Noun. A device that can be used to insert data into a computer or other computational device.
Specialized synonyms: Computer Keyboard, Keypad, Joystick, Digital Scanner, Image Scanner, Scanner
Generic synonyms: Computer Peripheral, Peripheral, Peripheral Device
Definition of Input device
1. Noun. (computing) Any of many hardware devices that generate and/or interface input (from a user or elsewhere) to a computer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Input Device
Literary usage of Input device
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access by Steven T. Puglia, Jeffrey Reed, Erin Rhodes (2005)
"Although files can be saved with any ICC-compliant profile that describes an
input device, output device or color space (or with no profile at all), ..."
2. Adult Literacy And New Technologies: Tools For A Lifetime by Office of Technology Assessment (1994)
"Scanner: An input device that attaches to a computer that makes a digital image
of a hard-copy document such as a photograph. Scanned pictures, graphs, maps ..."
3. Mastering C++ by K. R. Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, T. Ravishankar, Shaduli Vanimal (muhammad Ali Shaduli) (1997)
"... data from a standard input device to the memory items. ostream class: It is
a derived class of ios, and hence, inherits the properties of ios. ..."
4. The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Proceedings by Yusuf Pisan, SIGART. (2005)
"The input system abstracts all all types of input device into a generic InputDevice
which is considered to consist of a number of buttons, axes, ..."
5. Trusted Database Management System Interpretation of the Trusted Computer (1993)
"Another problem with bulk loading of labeled data is granularity. lt may be that
the labeling granularity of data on the input device is different from the ..."
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