backspace
IPA: bˈækspeɪs
noun
- The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.
- (computing) A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
- (computing) A non-printable text character representing a backspace.
verb
- (computing) To remove a character behind a cursor.
- (computing) To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
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Examples of "backspace" in Sentences
- Then press backspace to remove it.
- Ctrl H would backspace and delete.
- Then hit the delete or backspace button.
- A backspace key in its natural environment.
- I think the description of Backspace is incorrect.
- Backspace will correctly delete the character to the left.
- The backspace is a little funky but every thing else is great.
- This allows a workaround to the removal of the Backspace cheat.
- * backspace, backspace* wait ... where the hell did i think was?
- However, the backspace is the keyboard shortcut for the back button.
- The band would enlist him to make art for their 2009 album Backspacer.
- In any Gecko based browser (Camino, Firefox, etc.) open about: config and in the search field type "backspace".
- Fuse, lately when I try to post, if I accidently push the "backspace" button, which I do often, it whisks me back to a previous page.
- Re: Backspace key to revert to previous browser screen about: config Click "I'll be careful" and then type "backspace" into the box (no quotes).
- The post is a variation of an old joke I've seen on Slashdot where someone will say something controversial, "backspace," and then put something innocuous in its stead
- The keyboard is rather smaller than we would have liked, and it took a fair bit of getting used to before we could knock out emails without constantly referencing the 'backspace' key.
- Heliarchon had been forced to turn researchers to discover anything about this Terra, were done he knew little more than when he'd known Some kind of backspace garbage heap bat-ely out of the Age.
- FYI, if you weren't alive during the era of IBM Selectric typewriters, the "backspace" pad was the equivalent of today's "delete" key, and some might say the group just took a big step backwards with this 37-minute retro-trip.