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for Finder
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Finder \Find"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a
small telescope of low power and large field of view,
attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding
an object more readily, called also a finder telescope
or finder scope.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
2. (Micros.) A slide ruled in squares, so as to assist in
locating particular points in the field of vision.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
finder
n 1: someone who comes upon something after searching
2: someone who is the first to observe something [syn: finder,
discoverer, spotter]
3: optical device that helps a user to find the target of
interest [syn: finder, viewfinder, view finder]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
Finder
The part of the Macintosh Operating
System and GUI that simulates the desktop. The
multitasking+version+of+Finder+was+called+"{MultiFinder">multitasking version of Finder was called "{MultiFinder"
until multitasking was integrated into the core of the OS
with the introduction of System 7.0 in 1990.
(2005-03-18)
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