KEYSTROKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does keystroke mean? 

• KEYSTROKE (noun)
  The noun KEYSTROKE has 1 sense:

1. the stroke of a key; one depression of a key on a keyboard

  Familiarity information: KEYSTROKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KEYSTROKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The stroke of a key; one depression of a key on a keyboard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

key stroke; keystroke

Context example:

the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work

Hypernyms ("keystroke" is a kind of...):

stroke (a single complete movement)

 Context examples 

Analysis of device log data such as error or keystroke log, or device alarm history.

(Analysis of Data Log, Food and Drug Administration)

A record of data captured about device logging functions, error logs, keystroke logs and device alarm history.

(Analysis of Data Log, NCI Thesaurus)