English
From left to right: A keyboard's control key, Windows key, alt key.
Etymology
First use appears c. 1978 in the publication Practical Computing.
Noun
control key (plural control keys)
- (computing, computer hardware) A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used in combination to modify the function of other keys.
- Synonym: Ctrl (abbreviation)
Translations
computing: a key on a keyboard
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 控制鍵 / 控制键 (kòngzhìjiàn)
- Finnish: Ctrl-näppäin, Control-näppäin, ohjausnäppäin, komentonäppäin
- French: touche contrôle f
- German: Strg-Taste f, Steuerungstaste f, Control-Taste f (Switzerland)
- Italian: tasto control m
- Japanese: コントロールキー (kontorōru kī), コントロール (ja) (kontorōru)
- Korean: 컨트롤 키 (keonteurol ki), 컨트롤 (keonteurol)
- 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)
- Spanish: tecla control f
- Swedish: kontrolltangent c
- Turkish: kontrol tuşu
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