A peripheral device consisting of a flat, active surface that detects the exact position and pressure of a specialized pen or stylus. In hardware and CAD environments, digitizing tablets were historically used to trace schematics or layouts. The term now heavily overlaps with standalone touch-screen computers, but in bench contexts it refers strictly to the digitizer pad.
Heard on the job
I need to re-map the active area on my tablet because the stylus is drifting near the edges.
Also heard as
- digitizing tablet
- graphics tablet