control key

English

Etymology

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

Noun

From left to right: A keyboard's control key, Windows key, alt key.

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; normally labelled "Ctrl".

Translations

computing: a key on a keyboard

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 控制鍵／控制键 (kòngzhì jiàn)

• Finnish: Ctrl-näppäin, Control-näppäin, ohjausnäppäin, komentonäppäin
• 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)
• 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)
• Swedish: kontrolltangent c

See also

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