Dictionary of Accounting Terms: scroll
scroll
movement of the window up or down relative to the contents of a computer file in order to reach parts not originally seen on the screen.
Dictionary of Business Terms: scroll
scroll
to move up and down (or from side to side) in a computer file, bringing different information into view, as if the computer screen were the visible portion of a scroll being unrolled at one end and rolled up at the other.
Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms: scroll
scroll
- to move information across the screen as if the screen were a window or porthole through which you are looking. For example, all word processing programs can scroll vertically, and some can also scroll horizontally.
- (slang) to type gibberish rapidly and repeatedly in order to disrupt a discussion in a chat room. (This makes all the real messages scroll by too fast for people to read them.) See chat room.
