arrow key

arrow key

(hardware)One of four keys on a keyboard marked with arrowspointing up, down, left and right. The arrow keys are usedfor such things as moving the cursor in a text document, formoving the input focus between the fields of a form orsometimes for scrolling a picture.

Arrow key

One of four keyboard keys that move the cursor (the pointer on screen) up, down, left and right. See cursor keys.