The word 'keystroke' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the pressing of a key on a keyboard or other input device. Example: "I typed the entire report with just a few keystrokes, thanks to the auto-complete function on my computer."
Every keystroke was a challenge to Soviet claims of power and perfection.So too was her poetry: a journal of the tension between inner freedom and outward constraint.
In Dani Rodrik's excellent book The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States and Democracy Can't Coexist, he writes of traders thatWhat do all these men in their twenties and thirties sitting in front of huge computer screens, who move hundreds of millions of dollars across the globe at a keystroke and determine the fate of nations' currencies really do?
Couchsurfers, for example, can see at a keystroke what others in the network think of the stranger who wants to borrow their couch.
The man is a geographic analyst for NAVTEQ, one of a small group of companies that are creating new, digital maps of the world.Each keystroke he makes denotes a feature in the outside world that is added to the map displayed on the screen.
Loose lips may still sink ships, but his research demonstrates that an indiscreet keystroke could do just as much damage.
Anything moving in it is photographed, with images zipped to Mr Hess's mobile telephone, which can close the trap with a keystroke.
If buggy code causes a pump to interpret a single keystroke multiple times, for example, it could deliver an overdose.In addition to accidental malfunctions, wireless and networked medical devices are also vulnerable to attacks by malicious hackers.
Powerful new software makes it easy for bosses to monitor and record not only all telephone conversations, but every keystroke and e-mail message as well.Information is power, so it is hardly surprising that governments are as keen as companies to use data-processing technology.
With judges watching every keystroke, it took him only seconds to break remotely into the fully patched Macintosh laptop running Safari and take control of it.
There are online services that can be accessed only if the rhythm and other characteristics of your typing match a stored template of your "keystroke dynamics".
At a keystroke, it has become possible to find all sorts of obscure information, thanks to Google, Bing, Ask and other search engines.
