scrolling

scroll  (skrl)

n.

1.

a. A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.

b. An ancient book or volume written on such a roll.

2. A list or schedule of names.

3. An ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in Ionic and Corinthian capitals.

4. Music The curved head on an instrument of the violin family.

5. Heraldry A ribbon inscribed with a motto.

v. scrolled, scroll·ing, scrolls

v.tr.

1. To inscribe on a scroll.

2. To roll up into a scroll.

3. To ornament with a scroll.

4. Computer Science To cause (displayed text or graphics) to move up, down, or across the screen so that a line of text or graphics appears at one edge of the screen for each line that moves off the opposite edge: scroll a document; scroll a page of text.

v.intr. Computer Science

1. To cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen: scrolled down to the end of the document.

2. To appear onscreen and roll by: "The information scrolls so fast it's unreadable" (Creative Computing).

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[Middle English scrowle, alteration (influenced by rolle, roll) of scrowe, from Old French escroue, escroe, strip of parchment, scroll, of Germanic origin.]

Translations

scrolling [ˈskrəʊlɪŋ] N (Comput) → desplazamiento m