keyboard distance
keyboard distance noun: the shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.
Noun
keyboard distance (plural keyboard distances)
- The shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.
- We then computed a keyboard distance between any two given keys
based on the minimum number of adjacent keys that the finger
must travel over to reach one from the other assuming a QWERTY
keyboard layout. For example the keyboard distance for the {a,s}
pair is 1 and {a,c} is 3 (based on the path...2014, Bhaskar Mitra, Milad Shokouhi, Filip Radlinski, Katja Hofmann, “On user interactions with query auto-completion”, in Proceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research &...
- We then computed a keyboard distance between any two given keys
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see keyboard, distance.
Forms of keyboard distance
| plural | keyboard distances |
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Questions about keyboard distance
- What does keyboard distance mean?
- Keyboard distance means the shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.
- What part of speech is keyboard distance?
- Keyboard distance is a noun.
- What is the plural of keyboard distance?
- The plural of keyboard distance is keyboard distances.
Words near keyboard distance in the dictionary
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