keystroke

IPA: kˈistroʊk

The act of pressing an input key; a keypress on a computer keyboard or a typewriter, or a similar input device.

Examples of "keystroke" in Sentences

In many cases they install so-called keystroke loggers to capture personal information.
The inability to hide the dock with a keystroke is my number one complaint about Mac OS X.
(This means that the first keystroke is in category 35, the second is in category 12, and so on.
He accessed the programme menu and launched Hijack, as his friend in Van Nuys had amused himself to call the keystroke application.
Programs like KeyBag are commonly known as keystroke loggers, and this Universal application works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).