TAB KEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tab key mean? 

• TAB KEY (noun)
  The noun TAB KEY has 1 sense:

1. the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation

  Familiarity information: TAB KEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAB KEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tab; tab key

Hypernyms ("tab key" is a kind of...):

key (a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed)

Holonyms ("tab key" is a part of...):

typewriter keyboard (a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed)