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From key +‎ word.

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.wɜːd/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈki.wɝd/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d

keyword (plural keywords)

2. (cryptography) Any word used as the key to a code.

   Synonyms: password, passcode

   Coordinate term: keyphrase

4. (information science) Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
6. (information science) Any important word in a text or document, which may be linked to other words or other information, or at least merely listed in the metadata for searches to find.

   Synonyms: operative word, workword

   Hypernym: keystring

   Coordinate term: keyphrase

8. (programming) A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function, etc.
   • 1982, Popular Computing, volume 1, numbers 9-12, page 113:

     Each function has an entry address which must be quoted after the USR keyword.

   • 2017, Wisnu Anggoro, Learning C++ Functional Programming, page 8:

     Since C++11, the auto keyword is used to tell the compiler to deduce the actual type of a variable that is being declared from its initializer.

10. (linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.

    Coordinate terms: collocation, statistically improbable phrase

• (information science): index term
• (information science): descriptor

keyword (third-person singular simple present keywords, present participle keywording, simple past and past participle keyworded)

1. (transitive) To tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.
   • 2008 March 12, Philip Gefter, “Type in ‘Native American’ and Search (Someday) 13 Million Photos”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Besides being able to search the photography collections, of which 3,000 images have been scanned in so far, the feature is meant to provide a more subjective and spontaneous way for visitors to view the art: browsing images, looking at them sequentially and keywording, or tagging, them for themselves and other viewers.

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keyword m (invariable)

1. (computing) keyword