What's the difference between "keymap" and "shortcut"?

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When I was using some IDEs, I found two different things that seem to mean the same thing. They are "keymap" and "shortcut", so what is the difference between them?

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As per my understanding, Every shortcut will have keymap. To have a shortcut, you need to map one or more keys to it. Shortcut is what and keymap is how.

Let us say you want to clear your terminal using Ctrl+K. Then Clear is your shortcut and Ctrl+K is your keymap.

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