“鼠标”因形似老鼠而得名“鼠标”（中国大陆用语，港台作滑鼠）。“鼠标”的标准称呼应该是“鼠标器”，英文名“Mouse”，全称：“橡胶球传动之光栅轮带发光二极管及光敏三极管之晶元脉冲信号转换器”或“红外线散射之光斑照射粒子带发光半导体及光电感应器之光源脉冲信号传感器”。它从出现到现在已经有40年的历史了。鼠标的使用是为了使计算机的操作更加简便，来代替键盘那繁琐的指令"Mouse"鼠标是一种通过手动控制光标位置的设备。现在系统普遍使用的是二键或三键的鼠标。操作鼠标可以做如下事情：如确定光标位置、从菜单栏中选取所要运行的菜单项、在不同的目录间移动复制文件并加快文件移动的速度.你可以定义鼠标的按键，例如选择物体或放弃，这些功能依靠使用的软件实现。使用鼠标进行操作时应小心谨慎，不正确的使用方法将损坏鼠标。

Because of the shape of mouse named "mouse" (The mainland Chinese language, Hong Kong and Taiwan for the mouse). "Mouse" standard name should be "mouse", Its English name "Mouse", name: "rubber ball round transmission of the grating with light-emitting diode and phototransistor of wafer pulse signal converter" or "spot of infrared radiation scattering particles with light-emitting semiconductor and photoelectric sensors, sensor signal of the light pulse. " It appears to now have 40 years of history. The use of the mouse are operated in order to make the computer more convenient, to replace keyboard commands that cumbersome.

Mouse is a cursor position through the manual control equipment. System now commonly used keys are two or three button mouse. Operation of the mouse can do the following things: such as cursor position to determine, from the menu bar select the menu item to run in different directories to copy files between the mobile and to accelerate the speed of the mobile document. You can define mouse buttons, such as selection of objects or abandon These functions depend on the use of the software implementation.

Use the mouse to operate should be careful not correct to use the mouse will be damaged.