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keystroke
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
keystroke
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A macro is a special command that activates a series of keystrokes automatically.
▪ Boilerplate text can be inserted into a document with a few keystrokes.
▪ Cancelling toggle keys Repeat the keystroke.
▪ Movement of the cursor is controlled by several nominated keystrokes and the program itself is menu-driven.
▪ That will cost you 10 minutes and umpteen keystrokes and mouse clicks.
▪ The keystroke in the Command Area which selects the text editing window is Esc for Escape.
▪ There are nearly a dozen keystrokes which operate toggles.
▪ You define the macro by deciding which keystrokes are activated and which keys are used to give the command.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
keystroke

1902, from key (n.1) + stroke (n.). Not in common use until the rise of computers. As a verb, by 1966 (implied in keystroking).

Wiktionary
keystroke

n. The act of pressing an input key; a keypress on a computer keyboard or a typewriter, or a similar input device.

Usage examples of "keystroke".

The software captures the activities of the user, including passwords and keystrokes typed, email, chat conversations, instant messenger, all the web sites visited, and screenshots of the display screen.

All those daily repeated tasks, the same daily-routine keystrokes, the hindbrain could handle on autopilot.

George R should have messaged backup, confirmed availability, then let Hideo know he was off the hooka total of three keystrokes.

A few keystrokes brought him the message that the connections were all active.

Even though there were millions of keystrokes to sort through, finding the access code was simple.

Brandon sat down and, with lightning-fast keystrokes, booted up the machine and loaded a game.

I'd have expected them to be onstation, but not prepped: several keystrokes from a launch, though not more than a five second delay.

I'd have expected them to be onstation, but not propped: several keystrokes from a launch, though not more than a five second delay.

Farlabane pulled a scrap of paper from his pocket, on which he had noted down the serial numbers of the machines each exec had been sitting at - Hijack listed these numbers instead of user names, as obviously it would be recording a terminal's keystrokes before it knew the name of the user logging on.