touch pad

noun

: a keypad for an electronic device (such as a microwave oven) that consists of a flat surface divided into several differently marked areas which are touched to choose options

Examples of touch pad in a Sentence

Press the start button on the touch pad.

Recent Examples on the Web

Feast your eyes on the ambient AlienFX lighting pulsing through the Alienware 16 Area-51’s touch pad, the rear bar, and even the fans underneath. — PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025

The steering wheel has a couple of multipurpose touch pads to adjust air vents, steering wheel, mirrors, Blue Cruise and more. — Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 24 Apr. 2025

Out of the driver’s line of sight and with an idiosyncratic operating system, the touch pad never worked like the new, glanceable screen. — Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025

Their next handheld, the DS, was an experimental clamshell console with dual screens and a touch pad, yet was tasked with somehow recovering the ground lost to Sony while also being a worthy successor to the Game Boy name. — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1974, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for touch pad

• comrade
• dryad
• dyad
• forbad
• grandad
• granddad
• keypad
• nomad
• notepad
• postgrad
• sinbad
• tetrad

Kids Definition

touch pad

noun

: a keypad for an electronic device (as a microwave oven) that consists of a flat surface divided into several differently marked areas which are touched to choose options