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title: "what does the color wheel mean?"  
description: "what does the color wheel mean?"  
author: "Gray  park"  
published: 2018-09-18  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49928/what-does-the-color-wheel-mean  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["mac troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# what does the color wheel mean? 

what does the [color](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/77/how-to-split-form-background-color-in-c-sharp) wheel [mean](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/80630/what-does-it-mean-to-be-paperclipped)? \
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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- **The color wheel mean Refers to spinning wheel.**
- A frequent [**macOS**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49858/how-to-stream-video-from-a-mac-to-xbox) wait cursor is that rainbow spinning wheel (or whatever you want to name it). It's triggered when an app doesn't react for a few seconds, and it tells you to wait before giving it any additional commands.
- The ball indicates that your Mac is now unable to complete all of the tasks assigned to it. Every application on your Mac has a window server. When an app receives more events than it can handle, the window server displays the spinning ball automatically.

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