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spinbox

noun

Etymology

From spin + box.

  1. derived from Boxenstopp
  2. derived from pyxis
  3. derived from buxis
  4. inherited from *buhsā✻
  5. inherited from box
  6. inherited from box — “container, box, cup”
  7. compounded as spinbox — “spin + box”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of spinner (“interface element with arrowed buttons to select a value”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spinbox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA