key pad

See also: key-pad and keypad

English

Noun

key pad (plural key pads)

1. Rare form of keypad.
   • 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:

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

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

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

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

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

References

• keypad, key pad at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.