💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Asa character"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| carriage control characternoun | (computing) A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the printer before each new line is printed |
| control characternoun | (computing) 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. |
| non-printing characternoun | Synonym of control character. |
| non-printable characternoun | (computing) Synonym of control character. |
| characternoun | (countable) A being involved in the action of a story; a persona. |
| carriage returnnoun | (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 (newline). |
| escape characternoun | (computing, telecommunications) A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified. |
| special characternoun | (computing) A symbol that is not an alphanumeric character; a nonalphanumeric character. |
| charactnoun | (obsolete) A letter or character. |
| charnoun | (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol). |
| returnnoun | The act of returning. |
| charsetnoun | (computing) A character set. |
| bell characternoun | (computing) 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, generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or may cause the terminal window to flash briefly. |
| line feednoun | (computing) 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. |
| underscoreverb | (transitive) To underline; to mark a line beneath text. |
| metacharacternoun | (computing) A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard. |
| delete characternoun | (computing) the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape |
| charstringnoun | (computing) A character string. |
| base characternoun | (computing) A character whose appearance is modified by one or more combining characters. |
| caret notationnoun | (computing) A notation where each control character is represented by a caret followed by a letter or symbol. |
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