keystroke

keystroke
/kee"strohk'/, n.
one stroke of any key on a machine operated by a keyboard, as a typewriter, computer terminal, or Linotype: I can do 3000 keystrokes an hour.
[1905-10; KEY1 + STROKE1]

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