"pie menu" meaning in English

See pie menu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: pie menus [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pie menu (plural pie menus)
  1. (computing, graphical user interface) A circular context menu, resembling a pie chart, whose slices represent commands, each equidistant from the centre of the menu. Wikipedia link: pie menu Categories (topical): Computing, Graphical user interface Synonyms: marking menu, radial menu

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pie menu meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pie menus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pie menu (plural pie menus)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Graphical user interface",
          "orig": "en:Graphical user interface",
          "parents": [
            "Computing",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A circular context menu, resembling a pie chart, whose slices represent commands, each equidistant from the centre of the menu."
      ],
      "id": "en-pie_menu-en-noun-esi0~qJa",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "graphical user interface",
          "graphical user interface"
        ],
        [
          "circular",
          "circular"
        ],
        [
          "context menu",
          "context menu"
        ],
        [
          "pie chart",
          "pie chart"
        ],
        [
          "slice",
          "slice"
        ],
        [
          "command",
          "command"
        ],
        [
          "equidistant",
          "equidistant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, graphical user interface) A circular context menu, resembling a pie chart, whose slices represent commands, each equidistant from the centre of the menu."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "marking menu"
        },
        {
          "word": "radial menu"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "graphical-user-interface",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "pie menu"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pie menu"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pie menus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pie menu (plural pie menus)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Computing",
        "en:Graphical user interface"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A circular context menu, resembling a pie chart, whose slices represent commands, each equidistant from the centre of the menu."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "graphical user interface",
          "graphical user interface"
        ],
        [
          "circular",
          "circular"
        ],
        [
          "context menu",
          "context menu"
        ],
        [
          "pie chart",
          "pie chart"
        ],
        [
          "slice",
          "slice"
        ],
        [
          "command",
          "command"
        ],
        [
          "equidistant",
          "equidistant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, graphical user interface) A circular context menu, resembling a pie chart, whose slices represent commands, each equidistant from the centre of the menu."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "graphical-user-interface",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "pie menu"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "marking menu"
    },
    {
      "word": "radial menu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pie menu"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.