"passkey" meaning in All languages combined

See passkey on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: en-uk-passkey.ogg [UK] Forms: passkeys [plural]
Etymology: From pass + key. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pass|key}} pass + key Head templates: {{en-noun}} passkey (plural passkeys)
  1. A key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door. Synonyms: master key, passe-partout [obsolete] Translations (a key that opens any door): հիմնաբանալի (himnabanali) (Armenian), шперц (šperc) [masculine] (Bulgarian), passe-partout [masculine] (French), passepartout [masculine] (French), passe [masculine] (French), Generalschlüssel [masculine] (German), πασπαρτού (paspartoú) [neuter] (Greek), калауз (kalauz) [masculine] (Macedonian), отмы́чка (otmýčka) [feminine] (Russian) Translations (a key that opens the main or central door): Hauptschlüssel [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-passkey-en-noun-en:master_key__physical_object Disambiguation of 'a key that opens any door': 50 19 22 9 Disambiguation of 'a key that opens the main or central door': 42 25 23 9
  2. A key for entering a house or other building.
    Sense id: en-passkey-en-noun-en:regular_key__physical_object
  3. (computing, especially since the 2020s) A cryptographic key that is tied to specific devices or cloud accounts and is meant to be used instead of a password. Tags: especially Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-passkey-en-noun-en:login_credential_instead_of_passwords Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 4 48 32 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  4. (computing, dated) Synonym of password. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: password [synonym, synonym-of] Translations (a keyword, a password): Schlüssel [masculine] (German), Schlüsselwort [neuter] (German), Kennwort [neuter] (German), Zugangsschlüssel [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-passkey-en-noun-en:login_credential_synonymous_with_password Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'a keyword, a password': 5 3 35 57
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: skeleton key [physical] Related terms (virtual): passwordless
Disambiguation of 'virtual': 6 1 43 50

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.