toolbar

See also: tool-bar and tool bar

English
Toolbars in a wordprocessing application

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Etymology

tool +‎ bar

Noun

toolbar (plural toolbars)

  1. (graphical user interface) A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.
    Synonym: button bar
    Hyponym: toolstrip
    • 2005, Maria Francesca Costabile, Fabio Paternò, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2005, page 199:
      Some UIs tend to improve this by displaying toolbars only when they are related to any object manipulated (e.g., an image, a rectangle) and undisplaying them afterwards.

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