key stroke

1. 1.

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

   “the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work”

   Synonymskeystroke

   Broaderstroke

Questions about key stroke

What does key stroke mean?

key stroke means "the stroke of a key; one depression of a key on a keyboard".

What is another word for key stroke?

Close synonyms include keystroke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is key stroke a common word?

key stroke is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.