touch system
- noun
- /tʌtʃ ˈsɪstəm/
:
método de mecanografía
- Many schools teach the touch system to help students type more efficiently.
Examples
-
Mastering the touch system increased her typing speed dramatically.
-
He prefers the touch system over hunting and pecking on the keyboard.
-
The touch system allows for faster typing.
-
Have you tried the new touch system in class?
-
Many schools teach the touch system to help students type more efficiently.
-
He prefers the touch system over hunting and pecking on the keyboard.
-
Mastering the touch system increased her typing speed dramatically.
Synonyms
1
3.6
A way to use all fingers on a keyboard without looking at it
How Proficient
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'touch' and 'system', so a learner can infer it refers to a system based on touch (i.e., something using tactile input), which gives a partial clue to its meaning. However, the specialised sense 'touch system' = touch-typing (training fingers to strike keys without looking) is a domain-specific extension not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so it is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Touch system comes from the idea of using the sense of touch instead of looking at the keys. Teachers trained fingers to follow a system where each finger always goes to the same keys, so people could read and type at the same time, and the term means 'typing without looking'.