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key⋅board

[kee-bawrd, -bohrd]
–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


keyboarder, keyboardist, noun
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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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