tegur

Tegur is a term used in the Estonian language that roughly corresponds to the English word cue, signal, or prompt. In everyday usage, a tegur refers to something that cues a person or system to perform a particular action or to make a cognitive or perceptual response. In psychological, educational, and behavioral contexts, tegurid (plural) are stimuli or indicators that help organize learning, decision making, or performance.

In academic writing and teaching materials in Estonian, tegur is commonly discussed in discussions of conditioning, perception, and instruction design. A tegur may be external, such as a visual or auditory signal in an experiment, or internal, such as an expectation or memory cue that guides behavior. The concept is analogous to what English-language texts call cue or prompt, though usage is primarily within Estonian-language sources.

As a proper noun, Tegur can appear as a surname or part of place names in various regions, though there is no widely known person, location, or organization universally associated with the name. The term is not widely used as a loanword in English and is most often encountered in Estonian-language contexts or translations.

See also: cue, signal, stimulus.