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joystick
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun joystick has 2 senses
- joystick(n = noun.artifact) control stick, stick - a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane; Array is a kind of lever
- joystick(n = noun.artifact) Array - a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers; Array is a kind of control, controller, data input device, input device
OXFORD DICTIONARY
joystick, n.
1 colloq. the control column of an aircraft.
2 a lever that can be moved in several directions to control the movement of an image on a VDU screen.
1 colloq. the control column of an aircraft.
2 a lever that can be moved in several directions to control the movement of an image on a VDU screen.
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