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keyscan

noun

Etymology

From key + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. compounded as keyscan — “key + scan”

Definitions

  1. The process of scanning the state of a keyboard to determine which keys are being pressed.

    • There are two indirect RAM jumps encountered during a keyscan: […]
    • So, a keyscan routine that repeated every 100mSec would probably meet the requirement of fast enough.
    • The keyboard of the PC generates a keyscan code whenever one of its keys is depressed

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for keyscan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA