finder

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finder - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Finder \Find"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a
        small telescope of low power and large field of view,
        attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding
        an object more readily, called also a finder telescope
        or finder scope.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     2. (Micros.) A slide ruled in squares, so as to assist in
        locating particular points in the field of vision.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

finder - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  finder
      n 1: someone who comes upon something after searching
      2: someone who is the first to observe something [syn: finder,
         discoverer, spotter]
      3: optical device that helps a user to find the target of
         interest [syn: finder, viewfinder, view finder]

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

  Finder
  
     <operating system> The part of the Macintosh Operating System
      and GUI that simulates the desktop.  The
     multitasking version of Finder was called "MultiFinder"
     until multitasking was integrated into the core of the OS
     with the introduction of System 7.0 in 1990.
  
     (2005-03-18)