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joystick | x |

As a noun joystick

is a mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer or other equipment.

As a verb joystick

is (rare) to manoeuvre by means of a joystick.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

joystick

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer or other equipment.
  • * 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
  • If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.
  • (slang) A penis.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.
  • * 2006 , Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell
  • Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.
  • * 2007 , Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X
  • Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.
  • * 2007 , Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems II
  • It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.
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    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----