tab key

Definitions

General English

• noun a key on a keyboard which you press to jump forward to a set place on the line

Computing

• noun a key on a keyboard, normally positioned on the far left, beside the ‘Q’ key, with two arrows pointing in opposite horizontal directions, used to insert a tab character into text and so align the text at a preset tab stop

Electronics

• A computer keyboard key that moves the cursor from one tab stop to the next, or through successive tab stops.
• A computer keyboard key which when pressed inserts a tab stop.

Information & Library Science

• noun one of the keys on a computer keyboard which enables the user to move through or arrange text in columns

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Contexts for “tab key”

5 definitions in context
• General English
• Computing
• Electronics
• Information & Library Science