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F5

F5 verb: to refresh a webpage, especially if done continuously when waiting for an update.

Verb

F5 (third-person singular simple present F5s, present participle F5ing, simple past and past participle F5ed)

  1. (Internet) To refresh a webpage, especially if done continuously when waiting for an update.

Forms of F5

third-person singular presentF5s
present participleF5ing
past participleF5ed
pastF5ed

Origin of F5

After F5 (standing for Function 5), a hotkey used to refresh a webpage in many web browsers.

Questions about F5

What does F5 mean?
F5 means to refresh a webpage, especially if done continuously when waiting for an update.
What part of speech is F5?
F5 is a verb.
What is the past tense of F5?
The past tense of F5 is F5ed.

Words near F5 in the dictionary

  1. F2U
  2. F3
  3. F4A
  4. F4F
  5. F4M
  6. F5
  7. F50
  8. F50s
  9. F5ed
  10. F5ing
  11. F5s

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Adapted from Wiktionary: F5 (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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