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pääavain — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • passkey noun A key that opens multiple locks in a building, typically held by staff or management.

Senses

pääavain is used for these senses in English:

  • identifier (databases) A primary key.
  • passkey A key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door.
  • passkey A key for entering a house or other building.
  • passkey (computing, especially since the 2020s) A cryptographic key that is tied to specific devices or cloud accounts and is meant to be used instead of a password.
  • primary key (computing, databases) In the design of a database table, the primary key (abbreviated PK) is selected among the non-empty set of candidate keys. The PK is a column (or an irreducible group of columns) able to identify every row of the table.

passkey — full definition

  1. noun A key that opens multiple locks in a building, typically held by staff or management.
  2. noun A modern login credential tied to a specific device, used in place of a traditional password.

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