Control Key

Definition: Control Key

Control Key

Noun

1. (computer science) the key on a computer keyboard that is used (in combination with some other key) to type control characters.

Specialty Definition: Control key

In computing, a control key is a key stroke, while holding down the Control key, with a special function.

For example, ctrl-a means "select all".

For ctrl-x, ctrl-c and ctrl-v, see also Cut and paste and Copy and paste.

See also : function key, keyboard layout.

Generally, the apple key on macs is equivalent to the control key; for example, apple+c copies, while apple+p prints. Same pattern for saving, cutting, and pasting. Exceptions do exist.

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Crosswords: Control Key

English words defined with "control key": ASCII control character ♦ control character. (references)

Specialty definitions using "control key": FINAL ASSEMBLER ♦ WIRER, SUBASSEMBLIES. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: Control Key

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Costa Rica	The Rodriguez Administration had proposed selling state monopolies that control key parts of the country's infrastructure. (references)
	South Africa	Government policy favors the private sector, although parastatal companies continue to control key sectors of the economy, including electricity (Nampower), telephones (Telecom), water (Namwater) and the national airline (Air Namibia) and railway companies (TransNamib). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Control Key

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Anagrams: Control Key

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-k-l-n-o-o-r-t-y"
	-3 letters: control, cookery, coronel, coronet, elytron.
	-4 letters: cloner, colone, colony, colter, conker, cooker, cookey, cooler, cooter, cornel, cornet, coyote, croton, enroot, lector, locker, locket, looker, looney, looter, ocelot, oocyte, reckon, recook, relock, relook, retook, retool, rocket, tooler, tycoon, yonker.
	-5 letters: cento, ceorl, clerk, clone, clonk, cloot, colon, color, coney, conky, conte, conto, cooer, cooey.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.