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Hamburger menu

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, hamburger menu means: An icon made of three horizontal lines that opens a hidden navigation menu, often used on mobile screens to save space.

In Turkish: hamburger menü, üç çizgili menü

How it is used

Named for its shape, which looks like a burger between two buns. It saves space but hides options, so many mobile apps prefer a visible bottom tab bar for their most important sections.

Example sentences

  1. Nobody found the 'Sell' page because it was hidden in the hamburger menu.

  2. On desktop we show the full navigation instead of a hamburger menu.

Common collocations

  • hamburger menu icon
  • open the hamburger menu
  • hide items in the hamburger menu
  • navigation drawer
  • navigationThe menus, links, tabs and other elements that let people move around a website or app and understand where they are.
  • iconA small picture or symbol that stands for an action, object or idea, such as a magnifying glass for search or a bin for delete.
  • breadcrumbA row of links, usually near the top of a page, that shows where the current page sits in the site structure, such as Home > Shoes > Running.
  • responsive designAn approach to building pages so that the same layout adapts to any screen size, from phones and tablets to large monitors.

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