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carriage return

noun

Definitions

  1. On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the…

    On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.

  2. The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a…

    The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely indicates the end of a line of text (newline).

  3. The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates…

    The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for carriage return. 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