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escape key

A keyboard key commonly used to exit a mode or routine, or cancel some function. It is the key labeled "Esc."

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The Escape Key has leased a 2,000sq ft warehouse overlooking a graveyard on St Andrew's Street, in Gallowgate.

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I keep hitting the escape key, but I'm still here." ("Maxine," cartoons, J.

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Thus a new trial begins either after a reinforcer or after one press to the escape key. Designed to model an investment that goes bad, the reward key has an operant schedule that creates a diminishing chance of reinforcement as responses increment.

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OOn the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

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* The Escape key will take you out of a task you are doing.

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FIRST you've got to turn on the cheat mode by hitting the ESCAPE key while playing to get you to the Main Menu.