Definition of "touchpad" []

• A pointing device consisting of a soft pad sensitized to finger movement or pressure and used especially on laptop computers as an alternative to a mouse. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Because the touchpad is physically connected to the laptop whilst the mouse isn't ..."
• "If your touchpad is Synaptics based you can install their new beta software, Scrybe."
• "It took a month for someone to look at it just to tell me that my touchpad is shot and a new one needs to be ordered from Calgary."