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touch system

noun

  1. a system of typing in which each finger is assigned to one or more keys, thereby enabling a person to type without looking at the keyboard.


touch system

noun

  1. a typing system in which the fingers are trained to find the correct keys, permitting the typist to read and type copy without looking at the keyboard
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of touch system1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

They memorize the position of the letters and then operate the machine by the touch system, or by feeling.

She studied the touch-system with the keyboard covered, and her blunders were disheartening.

It being inadvisable to light matches here he ate chiefly by the touch system.

He says the touch system has ruined more reporters than shorthand.

Now I have worked out the location of letters, figures and signs by memory and the touch system, it will be very simple.

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