Word Request – What Are ‘Round Checkboxes’ Called?

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The thing a blue arrow points at is called a "checkbox", right? What do you call the round elements, the ones that look like bullet points?

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Best Answer

The round item you have indicated is a radio button

radio button

noun

(computing)

​(on a computer screen) a small circle that you click on in order to make a particular choice. The radio button is then marked with a dot (= a small round mark) to show that it has been selected.

Radio button (Oxford Learner's Dictionaries)

The difference between checkboxes and radio buttons is that you can check more than one checkbox in a group of checkboxes, but select only one radio button in a group of radio buttons.

The name comes from old-fashioned radios and TVs with buttons (round or not) which could be tuned to different radio stations or TV channels. If one button was already pressed in, and you pressed a different one, the first button popped out, and the second one stayed pressed in.

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Note: Although British English speakers are familiar with, and use, 'check', many call this symbol a 'tick', so we may say we 'tick' or 'untick' 'tick boxes'. Interestingly, this UK illustration for an article about 'tickboxes' shows a sheet headed 'checklist':

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