keyboard

—keyboarder, keyboardist, n.

/kee"bawrd', -bohrd'/, n.

1. the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.

2. a set of keys, usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, typesetting machine, computer terminal, or the like.

3. any of various musical instruments played by means of a pianolike keyboard, as a piano, electric piano, or organ.

v.t., v.i.

4. Also, key, key in. Computers. to enter (information) into a computer by means of a keyboard.

5. to set (text) in type, using a machine that is operated by a keyboard.

[1810-20; KEY¹ + BOARD]

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