tooltip
See also: Tooltip
English
Etymology
tool + tip, originally used with toolbars to provide a tip or hint as to what function each graphical icon represented. The term was introduced as ToolTip by Microsoft in the 1990s.
Noun
tooltip (plural tooltips)
- (graphical user interface) An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item.
Hypernyms
- tip
Translations
an element of a graphical user interface
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See also
- toolbar
References
tooltip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- tip tool