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keyboard distances

keyboard distances is the plural of keyboard distance.

Meaning of keyboard distance

Noun

keyboard distance (plural keyboard distances)

  1. 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 &...
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see keyboard, distance.

Questions about keyboard distances

What is keyboard distances the plural of?
Keyboard distances is the plural of keyboard distance.

Words near keyboard distances in the dictionary

  1. keyboard basses
  2. keyboard cowboy
  3. keyboard cowboys
  4. keyboard diarrhea
  5. keyboard distance
  6. keyboard distances
  7. keyboard glockenspiel
  8. keyboard glockenspiels
  9. keyboard instrument
  10. keyboard instruments
  11. keyboard layout

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