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key press

key press is the alternative form of keypress.

Meaning of keypress

Noun

keypress (plural keypresses)

  1. The depression of an input key.
    • But Allegro does allow you to read keypresses. Every event that's sent to an Allegro game comes in via a queue. That's just a list of data that describes which keys have been pressed, where the mouse is, and so on.2012, David Griffiths, Dawn Griffiths, Head First C: A Brain-Friendly Guide, page 531
    Synonyms:
    keystroke
  2. The buffered electrical signal resulting from such an event, sometimes distinguished from the release.

Forms of key press

pluralkey presses

Questions about key press

What is key press the alternative form of?
Key press is the alternative form of keypress.

Words near key press in the dictionary

  1. key person insurance
  2. key person risk
  3. key person risks
  4. key position
  5. key positions
  6. key press
  7. key presses
  8. key rate
  9. key rates
  10. key ring
  11. key rings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: key press (page history and authors); keypress (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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