carriage return

car·riage re·turn

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Definitions of carriage return words

noun carriage return a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper 3
noun carriage return (on a typewriter) the key or mechanism that causes the next character typed to appear at the left margin and on a new line. 1
noun carriage return Computers. the symbol, command, or key (return) that causes the printer to be positioned or the cursor to be displayed at the left margin. 1
noun Definition of carriage return in Technology (character) (CR, Control-M, ASCII 13) The character which causes the cursor to move to the left margin, often used with line feed to start a new line of output. Encoded in C and Unix as "\r". 1
noun carriage return On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the line. 0
noun carriage return (computing) 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. 0

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This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 3% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.

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