(v) To move the
pointer on a
display screen to
select an item.
Graphical user interfaces, such as the
Macintosh interface, are often called
point-and-click interfaces because a
user typically points to an
object on the screen and then clicks a
button on the
mouse.
(n) In typography, a point is about 1/72 of an inch and is used to measure the height of characters. (Historically, a point was.0138 inches, a little less than 1/72 of an inch, but this has changed.)
The height of the characters is one characteristic of fonts. Some fonts are referred to as fixed-point fonts because their representation allows for only one size. In contrast, a scalable font is one that is represented in such a way that the size can easily be changed.
