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key⋅board

  [kee-bawrd, -bohrd]
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–noun
1. the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
2. a set of keys, usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, typesetting machine, computer terminal, or the like.
3. any of various musical instruments played by means of a pianolike keyboard, as a piano, electric piano, or organ.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
4. Also, key, key in. Computers. to enter (information) into a computer by means of a keyboard.
5. to set (text) in type, using a machine that is operated by a keyboard.
Origin:
1810–20; key 1 + board

Related forms:
keyboarder, keyboardist, noun
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key·board   (kē'bôrd', -bōrd')   
n.  

  1. A set of keys, as on a computer terminal, word processor, typewriter, or piano.

  2. Music

    1. A piano.

    2. Any of various instruments, played by means of a set of pianolike keys, often connected to a synthesizer or amplifier.

tr.v.   key·board·ed, key·board·ing, key·boards

    1. To set (copy) by means of a keyed typesetting machine: keyboard a manuscript.

    2. To enter (text or data) into a computer by means of a keyboard.

  2. Music To play (a composition) on a piano or keyboard.

key'board'er, key'board'ist n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

keyboard 
1819, from key (1) in sense of "mechanism of a musical instrument" + board. Originally of pianos, organs, etc., extended to other machines 1846. The verb is first recorded 1961. Keypad is from 1975; keypunch is from 1933. Keystroke first attested c.1910.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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