multi-touch

Of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.

The PowerPad is used to produce multi-touch, multi-color graphics.

Mr. Jobs seized on the multitouch technology after Apple product designers proposed it as a “safari pad,” a portable Web surfing appliance.

Multi-touch capability.

But the performance of multi-touch is not so impressive.

One incredible example comes from Thomas Robinson [. . .] ; he creates a virtual light table that pulls in Flickr photos, then uses multitouch to allow you to use two fingers to pinch, zoom, rotate, or simply move the images around on the screen (Figure 12–16).