alt-tab
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.58 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A keyboard shortcut in Windows that switches between application-level windows, sorted by most recently active.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A keyboard shortcut in Windows that switches between application-level windows, sorted by most recently active.
Countable; Informal; Uncountable
verb
To switch between windows or applications by pressing Alt-Tab (or equivalent).
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "If I Alt-Tabbed through all other open programs, eventually returning to the screen from which the cursor disappeared, it would reappear and everything seemed fine."
- "‘Oh, good,’ said Professor Wright brightly, Alt'''-tabbing to her calendar and skimming the appointment."
- "At times when I was deep in the middle of a calculation, that sudden shudder of my chair and his shrill voice pulled me out of my semi-trance state as I alt-tabbed to hide any confidential data and turned my chair around to entertain his novel question."