Meaning

2 senses
  1. The depression of an input key.

  2. The buffered electrical signal resulting from such an event, sometimes distinguished from the release.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. "I need to buy a new keyboard." "What happened to the old one?" "It stopped responding to keypresses."

    ru«Мне нужно купить новую клавиатуру». — «А что случилось со старой?» — «Она перестала реагировать на нажатия».

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Origin

From key + press.

From key + press.

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Forms

plural: keypresses

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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