control key

English

Etymology

First use appears c. 1978 in the publication Practical Computing.

Noun

control key (plural control keys)

1. (computing, computer hardware) A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used in combination to modify the function of other keys.

   Synonym: Ctrl (abbreviation)

Translations

computing: a key on a keyboard

Chinese: Mandarin: 控制鍵 / 控制键 (kòngzhìjiàn) Finnish: Ctrl-näppäin, Control-näppäin, ohjausnäppäin, komentonäppäin French: touche contrôle f German: Strg-Taste f, Steuerungstaste f, Control-Taste f (Switzerland) Japanese: コントロールキー (kontorōru kī), コントロール (ja) (kontorōru) Korean: 컨트롤 키 (keonteurol ki), 컨트롤 (keonteurol) Macedonian: контролно копче n (kontrolno kopče) Portuguese: tecla de controle f (Brazil) (Mac OS X), tecla de controlo f (Portugal) (Mac OS X), tecla control f Russian: контро́ль (ru) m (kontrólʹ), кла́виша контро́ль f (kláviša kontrólʹ) Spanish: tecla control f Swedish: kontrolltangent c Turkish: kontrol tuşu

See also

• alt key
• enter key
• function key
• return key
• shift key

Further reading

• control key on Wikipedia.Wikipedia