escn.

Brit.

/ɛsk/, U.S.

/ɛsk/

Forms: 1900s– ESC, 1900s– Esc, 1900s– esc.

Etymology: Shortened < escape n.¹ Compare escape key n. at escape n.¹ Additions.

Computing.

The function key labelled ‘Esc’ which is found at the upper left of IBM-style keyboards and which generates an escape character when pressed, frequently used to interrupt or cancel an operation.

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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys

space bar1887

function key1930

delete key1963

esc1963

Alt mode1964

carriage return1965

return1965

return key1965

enter1966

Alt key1968

home key1968

arrow key1969

tab1969

control1976

delete1977

control key1978

cursor key1979

Alt1981

delete button1981

escape key1982

hot key1983

1963 Communications ACM 6 423/2 American Standard Code for Information Interchange... ESC..Escape.

1968 D. Mills Data Concentrator iv. 63 The first inbound ESC character stops the echo process, and the second restarts it.

1980 D. G. B. Edelen Isovector Methods for Equations of Balance vii. 238 Write ‘enter dimension and hit esc’.

1992 Lit. & Ling. Computing 7 135/2 In many programs the users have to find out for themselves how to leave the (sub)menu they are in. ESC (Escape) is the key computer literates expect to use for this purpose.

2012 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Oct. 20 ESC became a kind of ‘interrupt’ button on the PC—a way to poke the computer and say, ‘Cut it out.’

Compounds

esc key n. = escape key n. at escape n.¹ Additions.

ΚΠ

1968 Hewlett-Packard Jrnl. Nov. 12/1 HP basic will ignore any message terminated by pressing the esc or alt key on the teletypewriter.

1989 Shareware Mag. June 46 Obvious examples include making the Esc key a universal exit.

2005 Writer's Mag. Sept. 41/1 Simply press either the Esc key or click on the Format Painter button again to exit the command.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ESC n. Economic and Social Committee; also more fully as EESC n.

1966 Polit. Sci. Q. 81 405 The Community institution obviously designed..for the promotion of national interest-group demands would appear to be the Economic and Social Committee (ESC).

2007 Economist 14 Apr. 18/2 The ESC..gives groups representing employers, employees, consumers, farmers and others their only direct say in the EU's policymaking processes.

单词	esc
释义	escn. Brit. /ɛsk/, U.S. /ɛsk/ Forms: 1900s– ESC, 1900s– Esc, 1900s– esc. Etymology: Shortened < escape n.¹ Compare escape key n. at escape n.¹ Additions. Computing. The function key labelled ‘Esc’ which is found at the upper left of IBM-style keyboards and which generates an escape character when pressed, frequently used to interrupt or cancel an operation. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard > individual keys space bar1887 function key1930 delete key1963 esc1963 Alt mode1964 carriage return1965 return1965 return key1965 enter1966 Alt key1968 home key1968 arrow key1969 tab1969 control1976 delete1977 control key1978 cursor key1979 Alt1981 delete button1981 escape key1982 hot key1983 1963 Communications ACM 6 423/2 American Standard Code for Information Interchange... ESC..Escape. 1968 D. Mills Data Concentrator iv. 63 The first inbound ESC character stops the echo process, and the second restarts it. 1980 D. G. B. Edelen Isovector Methods for Equations of Balance vii. 238 Write ‘enter dimension and hit esc’. 1992 Lit. & Ling. Computing 7 135/2 In many programs the users have to find out for themselves how to leave the (sub)menu they are in. ESC (Escape) is the key computer literates expect to use for this purpose. 2012 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Oct. 20 ESC became a kind of ‘interrupt’ button on the PC—a way to poke the computer and say, ‘Cut it out.’ Compounds esc key n. = escape key n. at escape n.¹ Additions. ΚΠ 1968 Hewlett-Packard Jrnl. Nov. 12/1 HP basic will ignore any message terminated by pressing the esc or alt key on the teletypewriter. 1989 Shareware Mag. June 46 Obvious examples include making the Esc key a universal exit. 2005 Writer's Mag. Sept. 41/1 Simply press either the Esc key or click on the Format Painter button again to exit the command. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas ESC ESC n. Economic and Social Committee; also more fully as EESC n. Π 1966 Polit. Sci. Q. 81 405 The Community institution obviously designed..for the promotion of national interest-group demands would appear to be the Economic and Social Committee (ESC). 2007 Economist 14 Apr. 18/2 The ESC..gives groups representing employers, employees, consumers, farmers and others their only direct say in the EU's policymaking processes. extracted from En.¹ < n.1963 as lemmas
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