Key
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Key may refer to:
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[edit] Devices
- Key (lock), device used to open a lock
- Churchkey, various kinds of bottle and can openers
- Keychain, small chain that connects a small item to a keyring
- Telegraph key, the button used by a telegraph operator
- Computer keyboard keys
[edit] Music
- Key (instrument), musical instruments have keys for tuning and keys for playing
- Key (music), a set of notes
- Key signature, in musical notation(s)
- Clef, the symbol that assigns note names to the lines and spaces of the musical staff.
[edit] Geography
- a map legend or caption
- Cay, pronounced "key" and often spelled that way, a small, low island
- Florida Keys, an archipelago of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States
[edit] Artistry
- Black, in the CMYK color model
- Key frame, a frame made by an animator from which other frames are derived
- Key plate, a plate which printed the detail in an image
[edit] Fiction
- Key (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
- Keyblade, the main weapon of the main character of the Kingdom Hearts series
[edit] Literature
- Key (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
- Keyword (linguistics), word which occurs in a text more often than we would expect to occur by chance alone
- Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, book written by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams
- The Keys to the Kingdom, a fantasy-adventure book series
[edit] Surname
For people named Key, see Key (surname).
[edit] Other
- House of Keys, the lower branch of the Isle of Man's Parliament
- Identification key, a method of deducing the correct species assignment of a living thing
- Key Bank, a bank headquartered in the Key Tower in Cleveland, Ohio
- Key Club, a worldwide student service organization
- Keying (vandalism), a type of vandalism involving paint scratching
- Keys to the VIP, a game show about pick up artists picking up women
- Keys of the Kingdom: A Bible phrase. See Apostolic Succession
- Slang used to describe a Kilo, usually used when regarding drugs
- Samara, fruit falling in spiral (from ash trees).