keypad

UK/ˈkiːpæd/US/ˈkiːpæd/

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,409 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: keypads

A keypad is a small set of keys for entering numbers or commands. A door keypad.

The numbers on a telephone and on a calculator run in opposite directions, which catches everybody out. A keypad with worn keys tells anybody watching which digits the code uses.

Definitions of keypad

1nounkeypadA small set of keys for entering numbers or commands.B1+
“The keypad by the door had four keys worn shiny.”

keypad is a device.

Where it comes from

Key plus pad, on the pattern of keyboard.

From key + pad.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

keypad in the wild

Touch-tone dialing with a telephone keypad gradually replaced the use of rotary dials and has become the industry standard in telephony to control equipment and signal user intent.
DTMF signaling
The modern keypad is laid out in a rectangular array of twelve push buttons arranged as four rows of three keys each.
Telephone keypad
Initially, between 1963 and 1968, the keypads for civilian subscriber service omitted the lower left and lower right keys.
Telephone keypad
Num Lock or Number Lock is a key on the numeric keypad of most computer keyboards.
Num Lock
On some laptop computers, the Num Lock key is used to convert part of the main keyboard to act as a (slightly skewed) numeric keypad rather than letters.
Num Lock

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