Computer term

Computer term
 

I don't even know the English word for this, much less the Spanish but I'll try to describe it. When the computer is "thinking" (?) there appears a little circular image that rotates itself, usually clockwise but sometimes counter-clockwise, until the desired page shows up on the screen. Any ideas?

to load -> cargar
to process -> procesar
to download -> descargar
to install -> instalar

:thinking:

That's called the loading icon. It means you're waiting on the application to load.

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Other possible names include "busy icon", "wait icon", "loading cursor", "busy cursor" and "wait cursor". Often the same image is used whenever the program is performing a long operation that causes the program not to respond to other input until the operation completes.

The names with "cursor" are appropriate only when the image moves in order to track the current position of the mouse/pointer device.

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