key pad

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English

Noun

key pad (plural key pads)

  1. Rare form of keypad.
    • 1982, Edwin Diamond, “Waiting for Godot?”, in Sign Off: The Last Days of Television, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, part IV (Futures), page 233:
      And what are the chances that people will be getting video magazines on their television screens by punching up commands on their key pads?
    • 2008, Stephen Baxter, chapter 85, in Flood, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 417:
      To taps of the operators’ fingers on their key pads the screen images faded to darkness, which were then stopped up to grey.
    • 2016, Robert Ellis, chapter 59, in The Love Killings, Seattle, Wash.: Thomas & Mercer, →ISBN, page 292:
      Rogers picked up the phone and entered three numbers on his key pad.

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