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What (who) is chiclet keyboard - definition

TYPE OF KEYBOARD USING FLAT KEYS SEPARATED BY BEZELS
Chicklet keyboard; Rubber keyboard; Dead-flesh keyboard; Dead flesh keyboard; Island-style keyboard; Island style keyboard; Isolation keyboard; Flat keyboard
  • A white standard wired chiclet keyboard (flat keyboard)
  • Stylised cross-section of a "rubber" Chiclet keyboard. Under the left key is air space (light grey), just below the upper red conductive layer. The thickness of the bottom three layers is exaggerated for clarity; in real-life they are not much thicker than paper. Note the distortion of the thin rubber where the right-hand key (pressed) joins the sheet. Some designs omit the top membrane (green) and hole (black) layers, instead coating the undersides of the keys themselves with conductive material (red).

chiclet keyboard         
<hardware, abuse> A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of Chiclets chewing gum. Used especially to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early portable and laptop computers were launched with them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more. [Jargon File] (1997-05-16)
chicklet keyboard         
<spelling> It's spelled "chiclet keyboard". (1997-05-16)
Musical keyboard         
  • scale]]
  • A typical harpsichord keyboard
  • Layout of a musical keyboard (three [[octave]]s shown)
  • The [[Korg Monologue]] synthesizer has 25 slim keys and an E-E range.
  • 88-key piano illustration
  • Praetorius]]' ''[[Syntagma Musicum]]'' (1619). At the top is the earliest example of the "seven plus five" layout. The bottom two illustrate the earlier "eight plus four" arrangement
  • Keyboard of a Letter-Printing Telegraph Set built by [[Siemens & Halske]] in Saint Petersburg, Russia, ca.&nbsp;1900
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COMPONENT
Piano keyboard; Keyboard (music); Musical keyboards; Non-touch-sensitive musical keyboard; Non-touch-sensitive keyboards; Piano-style Keyboard; Piano Keyboard; Music keyboard; Musical Keyboard; 🎹; Keyboad instruments; Keyboad instrument; Musical keyboard layout; Button (music); Tastatur; Klaviatur
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.

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Chiclet keyboard

A chiclet keyboard or island-style keyboard is a computer keyboard with keys that form an array of small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like erasers or "Chiclets", a brand of chewing gum manufactured in the shape of small squares with rounded corners. It is an evolution of the membrane keyboard, using the same principle of a single rubber sheet with individual electrical switches underneath each key, but with the addition of an additional upper layer which provides superior tactile feedback through a buckling mechanism.

Since the mid-1980s, chiclet keyboards have been mainly restricted to lower-end electronics, such as small handheld calculators, cheap PDAs and many remote controls, though the name is also used to refer to scissor keyboards with superficially similar appearance.