Usually means: Key to exit or interrupt operations.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Escape key, escape key: Merriam-Webster
  2. escape key: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. escape key: Collins English Dictionary
  4. escape key: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. escape key: Wiktionary
  6. escape key: Dictionary.com
  7. Escape key: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. escape key: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. escape key: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Escape key: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. escape key: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. escape key: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Escape key: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Escape key: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (Escape key)

noun:  (computing) A key on a computer keyboard that can be used to cancel an operation.
noun:  Alternative form of Esc key [(computing) A key used to ɡenerate the escape character.]

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