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📱 Touchscreen method 🤲 Detects many touches
multitouch

multitouch

4.1
Can detect several fingers on a screen at the same time
  • adjective
  • /ˈmʌltiˌtʌtʃ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : multitáctil
  • Many modern smartphones support multitouch gestures for zooming and rotating images.

Examples

  • The new tablet features a multitouch screen.

  • The interactive map uses multitouch technology to let multiple users explore it together.

  • The new tablet features a multitouch display that allows you to use several fingers at once.

  • Is this device multitouch?

  • The new tablet features a multitouch display that allows you to use several fingers at once.

  • Many modern smartphones support multitouch gestures for zooming and rotating images.

  • The interactive map uses multitouch technology to let multiple users explore it together.

Surface Forms

multitouch positive

Morphology

multitouch = touch (transparent) = multi + touch

The adjective is transparently built from multi- 'many' plus touch, with the meaning directly indicating multiple points of contact.

Etymology

Multitouch combines the prefix multi- ('many') and touch ('to touch with a finger'), so a multitouch device is an adjective for something that can sense many finger touches at the same time.