Sentence examples for the keystroke from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of pressing an input key; a keypress on a computer keyboard or a typewriter, or a similar input device.
It took me about an hour to learn the keystroke combinations.
Yet there are secrets here that go beyond the realm of the keystroke.
Test subjects were invited to mimic the keystroke timing of another person they were observing, and were permitted to practice that person's 10-character password 100 times.
The work can be done entirely by sight, but it is a slow process, as the gaze must rest or dwell for a quarter- or a half-second before the keystroke is registered.
Charles C. Tappert, a professor of computer science at Pace University, has also conducted research on the keystroke biometric, verifying identities by looking at the way students type their answers to questions on online tests.
"The average user has no idea that he or she is opening up their entire personal and financial life, down to the keystroke, to an unknown, often ill-intentioned, third party," said Ms. Bono, who introduced a bill last summer to restrict the use of spyware that operates without a computer owner's full knowledge or consent.
I found the sounds of the keystrokes on the cash register enormously pleasing.
With these, users move their fingers over an imaginary keypad, and sensors infer the keystrokes.
* Recording the keystrokes their children have typed by using software like ChildSafe (www.webroot.com/childsafe1.htm).
Such programs can monitor the keystrokes of users to gain passwords or read the contents of the hard disk.
(You can practically hear the keystrokes behind a recurring motif, the spelling of his last name: F-O-X).
