function key

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Its print screen button, meanwhile, is hidden behind a function key.

From The Verge

For instance, the num lock is too easy to press accidentally, being right next to backspace, and the only function key is located too far away from the most essential function row buttons, making it a stretch to adjust the volume one-handed.

From The Verge

The keyboard layout is still crowded, with the important function key placed awkwardly next to the control key, making it cumbersome to do simple tasks like adjust the volume and brightness.

From The Verge

The power button, shaped just like a function key, is also right above Backspace, and I knocked that by accident on a couple occasions as well, which was even more of a hassle.

From The Verge

In the 40 years since then, journalists like me have written about the “brink of war” in the Persian Gulf so often that we ought to have the phrase on a function key.

From Washington Post