backspace key
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2.6
- noun
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tecla de retroceso
- The ability to correct errors using the backspace key confounds the measurement of rate and accuracy and should be incorporated into future studies of these performance characteristics.
- using the backspace key
- the small backspace key
Examples
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So you get up here and you detect, ah, we hit the backspace key, which on the Apple one was ADF, you know, first it'll echo the backspace key, which will move the cursor backwards.
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Sculpt Comfort Keyboard, left end of the space bar can be used as a backspace key.
Blog text (33) -
See, we have full length shift, key, full length backspace key, full length, enter full length shift.
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Then the backspace key, the right shift key, you get the idea.
Blog text (16) -
Long shift keys, long backspace key and full size enter key.
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And you're answering because you plan to hit the backspace key the first chance you get and make a polite apology when I asked you out this morning.
Fiction book (1999) -
The subjects were instructed to type the 35-word text trials as accurately and quickly as possible, using the backspace key to correct mistakes in the working word.
Academic text (1992) -
Increased the width of the spacebar to make the bar easier to strike. Split the spacebar to make use of the neglected left-hand side as an extra backspace key.
Blog text (33) -
In this case, though, there's a split space bar, whose left end can be programmed as a backspace key (Microsoft's rationale is that your fingers are constantly near the space bar anyway).
Blog text (33) -
When I made a mistake while typing, I quickly hit the backspace key to remove the last character.
Synonyms
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2.5
The key on a keyboard that erases the letter before the cursor
A key on a typewriter that moves the typing position one space back
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'backspace' denotes deleting the previous character and 'key' denotes a button on a keyboard, so together they denote the button that performs backspace. This is a transparent, cross-linguistic labeling of a keyboard function and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Backspace key gets its name from what it does: it moves the typing cursor back one space, so you can erase the last letter you typed. That's why the backspace key is used to 'delete' mistakes.