clipboard

3 definitions found

clipboard - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

clipboard - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  clipboard
      n 1: a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding
           papers

clipboard - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  clipboard
  
     <operating system> 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 such as images.
  
     (1996-08-23)