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control character

noun

Etymology

From control + character.

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

Definitions

  1. A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes…

    A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.

    • The tab, carriage return, and line feed are all control characters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for control 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