key pad

plural key pads

1. rareRare form of keypad.

   Rogers picked up the phone and entered three numbers on his key pad.

   2016, Robert Ellis, chapter 59, in The Love Killings, Seattle, Wash.: Thomas & Mercer, →ISBN, page 292

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   And what are the chances that people will be getting video magazines on their television screens by punching up commands on their key pads?

   1982, Edwin Diamond, “Waiting for Godot?”, in Sign Off: The Last Days of Television, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, part IV (Futures), page 233

   To taps of the operators’ fingers on their key pads the screen images faded to darkness, which were then stopped up to grey.

   2008, Stephen Baxter, chapter 85, in Flood, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 417