Keyboarding vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Hardware | the collection of physical elements that constitutes a computer system
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| Alt + tab | the collection of physical elements that constitutes a computer system
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| Homerow | a key concept in typing (sorry for the pun!). It is that middle horizontal row of the keyboard that starts with A and goes all the way across.
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| Accuracy | the quality or state of being correct or precise.
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| Wpm | Words per minute
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| Backspace | the keyboard key that originally pushed the typewriter carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems moves the display cursor
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| Keyboarding posture | the science concerned with designing safe and comfortable machines for humans
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| Caps lock | a lock key found on many computer keyboards, depending on the local keyboard layout they implement
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| Keyboarding Shortcut | a combination of keys that, pressed simultaneously, perform some task that ordinarily would take longer or necessitate using the mouse.
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| Conrol key (Ctrl) | modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation
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| QWERTY | he most common modern-day keyboard layout for Latin script
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| Cursor Control Key | This page describes the term cursor control keys and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information.
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| Service Key | ovides technology support and services to resellers, managed service providers (MSP's) independent software vendors, (ISVs), integrators
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| Delete | to remove (something, such as words, pictures, or computer files) from a document, recording
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| Shift Key | a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters. There are typically two shift keys, on the left
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| Enter/Return | On some keyboard layouts, the return and enter key are two different keys, an artifact
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| Software | known as computer programs, is the non-tangible component of computers. Computer software contrasts
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| Home keys | commonly found on computer keyboards. The key has the opposite effect of the ⇲ End key. In limited-size keyboards
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| Spacebar | blank or space key, is a key on a typewriter or alphanumeric keyboard in the form of a horizontal bar in the lowermost row,
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