"middle-click" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: middle-clicks [present, singular, third-person], middle-clicking [participle, present], middle-clicked [participle, past], middle-clicked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} middle-click (third-person singular simple present middle-clicks, present participle middle-clicking, simple past and past participle middle-clicked)
  1. (intransitive, computing) To press the middle button on a computer mouse. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms (press the middle button): click Translations (to press middle button of a mouse): clicar com o botão do meio (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-middle-click-en-verb-QR1F~KNQ Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'press the middle button': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'to press middle button of a mouse': 100 0
  2. (transitive, computing) To activate an item on the screen by middle-clicking while the pointer is over it. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-middle-click-en-verb-z7KRknJA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 30 70 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: middleclick Related terms: left-click, right-click

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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