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keyboarding Vocab
keyboarding Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Posture | The Position Of A Person S Body While Standing Or Sitting |
alt+tab (try it) | Switch Between Window |
Accuracy | the quality or state of being correct or precise. |
Backspace | a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard that causes the carriage or cursor to move backward. |
Caps Lock | Caps lock is a lock key found on many computer keyboards, depending on the local keyboard layout they implement. It is located in the position of a similar Shift lock key found in some other keyboard layouts. |
Control Key | a key that alters the function of another key if both are pressed at the same time. |
Cursor Control Key | a key that alters the function of another key if both are pressed at the same time. |
Delete | remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), esp. by drawing a line through it or marking it with a delete sign |
Enter/ return | Used to move the cursor down a line |
Home Keys | on the keyboard, the keys A, 5, D, F, J, K, L, : and ; used in the QWERTY method of keyboarding |
Function Keys | a button on a computer keyboard, distinct from the main alphanumeric keys, to which software can assign a particular function. |
Gross Wpm | is short for Gross Words A Minute and is similar to WPM except it does not |
Hardware | tools, machinery, and other durable equipment. |
Homerow | Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memor |
Wpm | is a measure of input or output speed. For the purpose of typing measurement, each word is standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long, including spaces and |
Keyboarding Posture | For the purpose of typing measurement, each word is standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long, including spaces and punctuation. |
Keyboard Shortcut | n computing, a keyboard shortcut is a set of one or several keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user |
Qwerty | denoting the standard layout on English-language typewriters and keyboards, having q, w, e, r, t, and y as the first keys from the left on the top row of letters |
Service Keys | |
Shift Key | a slight change in position, direction, or tendency. |
Software | the programs and other operating information used by a computer. |
Spacebar | a long key on a typewriter or computer keyboard for making a space between words. |
Prtsc | Print screen is a key present on most PC keyboards. |
Net Wpm | Gross speed indicates the total number of characters you have typed divided by your time (with spaces and punctuation) |