"key pad" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982, Edwin Diamond, “Waiting for Godot?”, in Sign Off: The Last Days of Television, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, part IV (Futures), page 233",
          "text": "And what are the chances that people will be getting video magazines on their television screens by punching up commands on their key pads?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Stephen Baxter, chapter 85, in Flood, London: Gollancz, page 417",
          "text": "To taps of the operators’ fingers on their key pads the screen images faded to darkness, which were then stopped up to grey.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Robert Ellis, chapter 59, in The Love Killings, Seattle, Wash.: Thomas & Mercer, page 292",
          "text": "Rogers picked up the phone and entered three numbers on his key pad.",
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        "Rare form of keypad."
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          "ref": "1982, Edwin Diamond, “Waiting for Godot?”, in Sign Off: The Last Days of Television, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, part IV (Futures), page 233",
          "text": "And what are the chances that people will be getting video magazines on their television screens by punching up commands on their key pads?",
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        },
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          "text": "To taps of the operators’ fingers on their key pads the screen images faded to darkness, which were then stopped up to grey.",
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        },
        {
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