Hybrid-mechanical

Hybrid-mechanical is a loose term, referring to a combination of mechanical and non-mechanical parts on a keyboard.

Like the non-term "mecha-membrane", it is often used for marketing of rubber dome keyboards to make them seem fancier than they really are.

It usually means any of the following:

• Rubber dome-with-slider keyboards.
• A keyboard with mechanical and non-mechanical switches on different keys. The mechanical switches are usually in the WASD cluster.
• "Semi-mechanical" keyboard switches.

See also

• Mecha-membrane
• Semi-mechanical
• Mitsumi hybrid switch