keystroke

2 ENTRIES FOUND:

1key·stroke

noun \-ˌstrōk\

Definition of KEYSTROKE

: the act or an instance of depressing a key on a keyboard

Examples of KEYSTROKE

  1. He deleted all of my work with a single keystroke.

First Known Use of KEYSTROKE

circa 1910

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