mouse wheel

English

Noun

mouse wheel (plural mouse wheels)

1. (computing) A hard plastic or rubbery disc on a computer mouse, rotated by the user in order to scroll the display.

   He was a mouse-wheel virtuoso, scrolling and zooming with ease.

Synonyms

• scroll wheel

Translations

disc used for scrolling

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: skrolovací kolečko n
• Dutch: muiswieltje (nl) n, scrollwieltje n
• Finnish: hiiren rulla
• French: molette de souris f
• Galician: roda do rato f
• German: Mausrad n, Scrollrad n
• Japanese: マウスホイール (mausu hoīru)
• Korean: 마우스 휠 (mauseu hwil)
• Portuguese: (Brazil) roda do mouse f, (Portugal) roda do rato f
• Spanish: rueda del ratón