snackbar
nounEtymology From snack + bar.
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Computing, Engineering, Graphical user interface, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A temporary banner informing the user of some action which happened or is about to happen, less interactive than a standard window and more interactive than a toast overlay
- Users can now look forward to seeing a snackbar open up each time a download completes.2015 September 24, Cody Toombs, “Chrome Dev For Android Now Shows A Snackbar For Completed Downloads”, in Android Police:
- Chrome Dev. on Google's own Android platform received a new update where users would be able to see a snackbar when downloads complete.2015 September 25, Taha Qureshi, “Android Chrome Dev. Shows A 'Snackbar' When Downloads Complete”, in Tech News Today:
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- Chrome 47 for Android now shows a snackbar at the bottom of the screen whenever a download has been completed.2015 December 4, “Google Chrome 47 for Android Brings Download 'Snackbar' and More”, in NDTV:
- A Snackbar generally slides up from the bottom, while a Toast usually fades into the center of the screen.2019, Shaun Lewis, Mike Dunn, Native Mobile Development: A Cross-Reference for iOS and Android, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 165:
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Alternative Alternative form of snack bar.
- On February 1, 1964, while the Council and the Clerks were thus engaged, inter alia, in negotiating wage rates for the unrepresented snackbar employees on a multiemployer basis, the Joint Board, on behalf of affiliated unions representing culinary workers in the Los Angeles area, entered into an exclusive bargaining contract with Boy's covering all snackbar workers of Boy's in four stores in Los Angeles County.1967, The federal reporter - Volume 370, page 207:
- There is a dining room with southwestern dishes on the menu, a beauty and barber shop, newsstand, coffeeshop, gift shop, snackbar, and coin laundry.1989, Roy Bongartz, Frommer's Dollarwise Southwest, Including New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado, 1989-1990, →ISBN, page 272:
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- In that day the pavilion consisted of an enclosed ground floor with a snackbar and restrooms, while the upper floor was an open air, roofed dance floor.2002, Dr. Gene Atkinson, Orangeburg, →ISBN, page 1949:
- The Benguela current system leads to upwelling of nutrient-rich cold water off the coast of Namibia and acts as a kind of snackbar in the tropical ocean, which is visited by many animals including giant whales.2005 May 4, Max Planck Society, “Anammox Bacteria Produce Nitrogen Gas In Oceans' Snackbar”, in Science Daily:
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- Allah snackbar