key
noun
/ki/
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/kiː/
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[cʰi̞i̯]
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[kʲʰi̞i̯]
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- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
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clé,
clef
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- (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
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touche
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- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
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touche,
clé,
clef
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- (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
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touche,
clé,
clef,
tonalité
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- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
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légende,
clef
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key
adjective
/ki/
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/kiː/
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[cʰi̞i̯]
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[kʲʰi̞i̯]
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- Indispensable, supremely important.
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clé,
clef
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clé
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key
noun
/ki/
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/kiː/
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[cʰi̞i̯]
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[kʲʰi̞i̯]
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- One of a string of small islands.
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caye
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