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keyboarding

keyboarding noun: the act of typing at a keyboard (with or without a mouse or other pointing device). Also the present participle and gerund of keyboard.

Noun

keyboarding (countable and uncountable, plural keyboardings)

  1. The act of typing at a keyboard (with or without a mouse or other pointing device)
    • The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]1977 June 13, Computerworld, volume 11, number 24, page 91

Also used as

keyboarding is also the present participle and gerund of keyboard.

Forms of keyboarding

pluralkeyboardings

Origin of keyboarding

From keyboard + -ing.

Questions about keyboarding

What does keyboarding mean?
Keyboarding means the act of typing at a keyboard (with or without a mouse or other pointing device).
What part of speech is keyboarding?
Keyboarding is a noun.
What is the plural of keyboarding?
The plural of keyboarding is keyboardings.

Words near keyboarding in the dictionary

  1. keyboardable
  2. keyboarded
  3. keyboarder
  4. keyboarders
  5. keyboardful
  6. keyboarding
  7. keyboardings
  8. keyboardism
  9. keyboardist
  10. keyboardists
  11. keyboarditis

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