on-screen keyboard

collocation in English

meaningsofon-screenandkeyboard

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on-screen
adjective
uk
/ˌɒnˈskriːn/us
/ˌɑːnˈskriːn/
used for describing a performer, actor, etc. when they are appearing in a film, on a TV show, etc., rather than in their ...
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keyboard
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkiː.bɔːd/us
/ˈkiː.bɔːrd/
the set of keys on a computer or typewriter that you press in order to make it ...
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(Definition ofon-screenandkeyboardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Figure 4, shows theon-screenkeyboarddisplaying predicted words.
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On the bottom screen, the user enters the word he or she wants to translate in the source language, using theon-screenkeyboard.
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It also includes handwriting recognition software and anon-screenkeyboardto enable user input.
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If text input is required, user can invoke anon-screenkeyboardor, if the whiteboard provides for this, utilize handwriting recognition.
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Theon-screenkeyboardhas an improved autocomplete mechanism which displays multiple word suggestions, and allows users to select from them by sliding on the spacebar.
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Text input is done through anon-screenkeyboard.
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Touch-screen devices would no longer need to split the display between content and anon-screenkeyboard, thus providing full-screen viewing of the content.
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Another major use for anon-screenkeyboardis for bi- or multi-lingual users who switch frequently between different character sets or alphabets, which may be confusing over time.
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Text was entered via anon-screenkeyboard.
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Because of its size, the phone'son-screenkeyboardand dialer can be switched to either sides for users to easily reach all keys with only the thumb.
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These programmable on-screen keyboards (selection sets) are now available for a number of very different applications.
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