1. an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a computer screen; - Example: "a trackball is essentially an upside-down mouse"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
trackball
n 1: an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a
housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a
computer screen; "a trackball is essentially an upside-down
mouse"