Key

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Key may refer to:

  • Key (lock), device used to open a lock or door
    • Skeleton key or master key, a key altered to bypass wards placed inside a lock
  • Key (chart), a guide to colours and symbols used in a data chart, graph, plot or diagram
  • Key (cryptography), a piece of information that controls the operation of a cryptography algorithm (see Subkey)
  • Key (engineering), a type of coupling used to transmit rotation between a shaft and an attached item
  • Key (map), a guide to a map's symbology
  • Key (tool), tool used to wind a clockwork motor

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[edit] Places

  • Key Island, Tasmania, Australia
  • Florida Keys, an archipelago of about 1700 such islands in the southeast United States

[edit] Music

  • Key (instrument), musical instruments have keys for tuning and keys for playing; such as on a guitar
  • Key (music), a set of notes in music
  • Key (singer) (born 1991), South Korean entertainer
  • Key (album), an album by Son, Ambulance
  • Key signature, in musical notation and tablature
  • Keys can be short for keyboards, a type of musical instrument part of the percussion family

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[edit] Companies and organizations

  • Key (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
  • KeyBank, a bank headquartered in the Key Tower in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Key Club, a worldwide student service organization
  • House of Keys, the directly elected lower branch of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man

[edit] Printing

  • Key color (typically black), in the CMYK color model
  • Keyline, a dark line separating color elements in four-color printing
  • Key plate, a plate which prints the detail in an image, often using the color black
  • Chroma key, a method to superimpose several video layers using areas of a defined color as a mask

[edit] Other

  • Churchkey, various kinds of bottle and can openers
  • Clef (from the French for "key"), the symbol that assigns note names to the lines and spaces of the musical staff
  • Greek key pattern, a meander pattern
  • Key (basketball), also known as the shaded lane in a basketball court
  • Keychain, small chain that connects a small item to a keyring
  • Key frame, a frame made by an animator from which other frames are derived
  • Key light, the primary light source that illuminates an image or scene
  • Keys, a truce term used in western Scotland
  • Keystone (architecture), the stone at the apex of an arch that holds the arch in place
  • Samara (fruit) or key, a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall
  • Subkey
  • Telegraph key, the button used by a telegraph operator

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