In the world of computers, a mouse is that device that helps in detecting two dimensional motional related to the surface. It is a point device that lets this motion be translated into pointer’s motion, which is visible on display and allows fine control or graphical user interface as well.
Talking of its physical appearance, mouse is an object that one can hold in his hand. It has one or more buttons. A mouse also has other elements like touch surfaces as well as ‘wheels’ that allow additional control as well as dimensional output to the user.
The term ‘mouse’ was published in the publication of Bill English’s ‘Computer Aided Display Control’, which was published and distributed in the year 1965.
According to the Oxford Dictionaries online, the plural for this small rodent ‘mouse’ is ‘mice’. It also states that the device connected to computer may have its plural as ‘mouses’ or even ‘mice’. However, the most common plural for mouse is mice and when it was used for the first time in a publication, its plural was ‘mice’ and not ‘mouses’ (although the dictionary talks about 1984’s use of the term ‘mice’, there were several earlier usages as well like ‘The Computer as a Communication Device’, published in 1968 by J. C. R. Licklider). The fifth edition of American Heritage Dictionary of English Language, the common plurals for this term can either be ‘mice’ or ‘mouses’ as well.