"space bar" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: space bars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} space bar (plural space bars)
  1. (computing) A key, in the shape of a bar, near the bottom of a keyboard, that generates a space character when pressed. Wikipedia link: space bar Categories (topical): Computing Translations (key): spasiebalk (Afrikaans), boşluq düyməsi (Azerbaijani), интервал (interval) [masculine] (Bulgarian), barra espaiadora [feminine] (Catalan), barra d'espai [feminine] (Catalan), 空格 (kònggé) (Chinese Mandarin), 空格鍵 (Chinese Mandarin), 空格键 (kònggé jiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), mezerník [masculine] (Czech), spatiebalk [masculine] (Dutch), spacetklavo (Esperanto), välilyöntinäppäin (Finnish), barre d’espace [feminine] (French), espace [feminine] (French), barra espaciadora [feminine] (Galician), Leertaste [feminine] (German), szóköz (Hungarian), barra spásála [masculine] (Irish), spásbharra [masculine] (Irish), barra spaziatrice [feminine] (Italian), スペースバー (supēsubā) (Japanese), スペース (supēsu) (Japanese), គ្រាប់ចុច ចន្លោះមិនឃើញ (krŏəpcoc cɑɑnlŭəhmɨnkhəəñ) (Khmer), pae mokowā (Maori), mellomromstast [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), mellomromstast [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), spacja [feminine] (Polish), espaço [masculine] (Portuguese), barra de espaço [feminine] (Portuguese), bară de spațiu [feminine] (Romanian), tastă de spațiu [feminine] (Romanian), spațiu (Romanian), spacebar (Romanian), пробе́л (probél) (alt: клавиша) [masculine] (Russian), preslednica (Slovak), barra espaciadora [feminine] (Spanish), mellanslag [neuter] (Swedish), mellanslagstangent [common-gender] (Swedish), blanksteg [neuter] (Swedish), སྟོང་མིག་འཐེབ (stong mig 'theb) (Tibetan), བར་སྟོང་འཐེབ (bar stong 'theb) (Tibetan), boşluk (Turkish), про́пуск (própusk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), пробі́л (probíl) [masculine] (Ukrainian), phím cách (Vietnamese), phím khoảng cách (Vietnamese), phím dài (Vietnamese), phím dấu cách (Vietnamese), nút cách (Vietnamese)

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      "sense": "key",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "mellanslag"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "key",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "mellanslagstangent"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "key",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blanksteg"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "stong mig 'theb",
      "sense": "key",
      "word": "སྟོང་མིག་འཐེབ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "bar stong 'theb",
      "sense": "key",
      "word": "བར་སྟོང་འཐེབ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "key",
      "word": "boşluk"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "própusk",
      "sense": "key",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "про́пуск"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "probíl",
      "sense": "key",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пробі́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "key",
      "word": "phím cách"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "key",
      "word": "phím khoảng cách"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "key",
      "word": "phím dài"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "key",
      "word": "phím dấu cách"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "key",
      "word": "nút cách"
    }
  ],
  "word": "space bar"
}

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