"keyboard distance" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: keyboard distances [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} keyboard distance (plural keyboard distances)
  1. The shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.
    Sense id: en-keyboard_distance-en-noun--36lsG5X Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see keyboard, distance.
    Sense id: en-keyboard_distance-en-noun-3WZdToD1

Inflected forms

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          "text": "We then computed a keyboard distance between any two given keys\nbased on the minimum number of adjacent keys that the finger\nmust travel over to reach one from the other assuming a QWERTY\nkeyboard layout. For example the keyboard distance for the {a,s}\npair is 1 and {a,c} is 3 (based on the path a→s→d→c) by this\ndefinition.",
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