: a key on a keyboard that when pressed enables an alternate set of characters to be produced by the other keys
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Recent Examples on the WebSenate Bill 1, sponsored by Sen. John Schickel, R-Union, would shift key powers from school-level councils of teachers and parents to district superintendents. Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2022 That keyboard has also been tweaked to have a longer right shift key and shorter directional keys; previous models had awkwardly stuck the up key between the shift and forward slash keys. Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 21 May 2020 Gretchen McCulloch Early on, when most people’s typing was happening on desktop or laptop computers, the easy way to type was to just ignore the shift key and put everything in lower case. Megan Mcdonough, Vox, 29 July 2019