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bell character

noun

Etymology

From bell + character.

  1. derived from χαρακτήρ
  2. derived from character
  3. derived from caractere
  4. derived from caracter
  5. compounded as bell character — “bell + character”

Definitions

  1. A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07),…

    A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, it generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or, as a silent visual alternative, may cause the terminal window to flash briefly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bell character. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA