Clipboard

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  clipboard \clipboard\ n.
     a small writing board with a clip attached at the top for
     holding papers.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  clipboard
       n : a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding
           papers

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  clipboard
       
           A temporary memory area, used to transfer
          information within a document being edited or between
          documents or between programs.  The fundamental operations are
          "cut" which moves data from a document to the clipboard,
          "copy" which copies it to the clipboard, and "paste" which
          inserts the clipboard contents into the current document in
          place of the current selection.
       
          Different {Graphical User Interfaces} vary in how they handle
          the different types of data which a user might want to
          transfer via the clipboard, some (e.g. the {X Window System})
          support only plain text, others (e.g. {NEXTSTEP}) support
          arbitrarily typed data.
       
          (1996-08-23)