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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A key on a computer keyboard that is pressed in combination with another key to activate a command.
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- noun computing A key on a
personal computer orterminal keyboard used incombination tomodify thefunction of other keys; normally labelled "Ctrl"
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) the key on a computer keyboard that is used (in combination with some other key) to type control characters
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