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Carriage return
On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the line.
📖 Definitions of "Carriage return"
noun
- 1
On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the line.
- 2
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.
- 3
The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer)
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