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Key
Key
To initiate an action by depressing a key or a button.
source: FAA Aviation Maintenance Technician Airframe Handbook (FAA-H-8083-31)
As an adjective:
  1. Indispensable, supremely important.
  2. Important, salient.
As a noun:
  1. An object designed to open and close a lock. ?
  2. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
  3. A crucial step or requirement. ?
  4. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
  5. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
  6. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
  7. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
  8. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
  9. (Internet) A password
As a verb:
  1. To fit (a lock) with a key.
  2. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
  3. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class. ?
  4. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
  5. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
  6. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
  7. To link (as one might do with a key or legend). ?
source: Wikitionary / Wikipedia and Related Sources (Edited)

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