key-pad

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English

Noun

key-pad (plural key-pads)

  1. Rare form of keypad.
    • 1982, Elaine Williams, “Videotex”, in edited by Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Inventions that Changed the World: An Illustrated Guide to Man’s Practical Genius Through the Ages, London: The Reader’s Digest Association Limited, →OCLC, page 320, column 2:
      The user presses the key on his key-pad corresponding to the required topic. […] If a viewdata user wanted to find out more information about a service, all he would do is key in the right code on his key-pad.
    • 1985 July, Jack Jones, “Networks and Microcomputers”, in Black Chip: A Journal of Computing for Anarchists, number 3, page 5, column 1:
      For example, mail-order applications enable users to indicate, by numeric code on their key-pads an item to be purchased and a credit card number to be debited.
    • 2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
      In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone.

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