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line feed

noun

Definitions

  1. On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines,…

    On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return.

  2. The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or…

    The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.

  3. A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.

    • It appears that Director Chalmers was the only one who, while reading the final draft, noticed that the wording of one clause required the Post Office to provide a line feed to each station.
    • The edited output of the picture is then sent out as the “line feed."
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    1. To advance the page one line at a time, particularly in rapid succession.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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