space bar

See also: spacebar

English

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.
   • 1893, Bates Torrey, Instuction in Practical Shorthand, page 276:

     Hand position is best secured by dropping the fourth fingers upon P and Q and making the other fingers fall naturally upon the next figures in order, P O I U, for right hand, and Q W E R for the left; then place the right thumb on the space bar, and if the elbows are close to the body, a good hand position is attained.

Translations

key

• Afrikaans: spasiebalk
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: boşluq düyməsi
• Bulgarian: интервал (bg) m (interval)
• Catalan: barra espaiadora f, barra d'espai f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空格 (zh) (kònggé), 空格鍵／空格键 (kònggé jiàn)

• Czech: mezerník (cs) m
• Dutch: spatiebalk (nl) m
• Esperanto: spacetklavo
• Finnish: välilyöntinäppäin
• French: barre d’espace f, espace (fr) f
• Galician: barra espaciadora f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Leertaste (de) f
• Hungarian: szóköz (hu)
• Irish: barra spásála m, spásbharra m
• Italian: barra spaziatrice (it) f
• Japanese: スペースバー (supēsubā), スペース (ja) (supēsu)
• Khmer: គ្រាប់ចុច ចន្លោះមិនឃើញ (krŏəpcoc cɑɑnlŭəhmɨnkhəəñ)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: pae mokowā
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mellomromstast m

  Nynorsk: mellomromstast m

• Polish: spacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: espaço (pt) m, barra de espaço f
• Romanian: bară de spațiu f, tastă de spațiu f, spațiu (ro), spacebar
• Russian: пробе́л (ru) m (probél) (клавиша)
• Slovak: preslednica
• Spanish: barra espaciadora f
• Swedish: mellanslag (sv) n, mellanslagstangent c, blanksteg (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: སྟོང་མིག་འཐེབ (stong mig 'theb), བར་སྟོང་འཐེབ (bar stong 'theb)
• Turkish: boşluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: про́пуск m (própusk), пробі́л m (probíl)
• Vietnamese: phím cách, phím khoảng cách, phím dài, phím dấu cách, nút cách

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