| 释义 |
rekey, v. Chiefly Computing.|riːˈkiː|
[f. re- 5 a + key v.]
trans. To enter (a key-stroke or data, esp. text) again at a keyboard.
1966Proc. AFIPS Conf. XXVIII. 266/1 This is done by backspacing over incorrect keystrokes and re-keying the correct strokes. 1982Computers in Bk. Production (Oxf. Univ. Press typescript) 509 The Divisions need to be able to accept material from authors which is already in machine readable form, without having the text rekeyed. 1986Your Computer (Austral.) May 16/3, I rekeyed some material, realised I could re-create more, and told her. 1988A. C. Amos in Butler & Stoneman Editing, Publishing & Computer Technol. 52 The fact that, with one of the largest data entry jobs ever, the Oxford English Dictionary chose to rekey the text rather than scanning it is indicative of some of the potential complications in using a Kurzweil.
Hence reˈkeying vbl. n.
1971Computers & Humanities VI. 40 If no re-keying of the text is necessary, making changes does not create new errors. 1986Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 16/8 If you could feed printed words into a computer without rekeying, it would be wonderful. |