avain — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
avain is used for these senses in English:
- clef (music) A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- code A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- key Indispensable, supremely important.
- key Important, salient.
- key In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- key (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- key (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- key (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
code — full definition
- noun Instructions written in a programming language that a computer can run.
- noun A system of symbols or signals used to represent information secretly or compactly.
- noun A formal set of laws, rules, or principles governing a subject or group.
- verb To write instructions for a computer program.
key — full definition
- noun A shaped piece of metal used to open or lock a particular lock.
- noun The single most important factor or step needed to achieve something.
- noun One of the buttons pressed to type on a keyboard or play a musical instrument.
- noun A short guide listing what the symbols, colours, or abbreviations on a map, chart, or test mean.
- noun In music, the set of related notes a piece is built around, giving it its overall tonal centre.