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Escape sequence

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escapenounThe act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
escapernounA person who escapes.
metasequencenoun(computing) A sequence of characters having a similar role to a metacharacter.
escape keynoun(computing) A key on a computer keyboard that can be used to cancel an operation.
control codenoun(computing) A numeric value or string of such values that triggers a specific command or action to occur, rather than displaying a text character.
function codenoun(computing) Any character used to specify a function of a piece of software or hardware (such as carriage return of a printer)
syntax errornoun(computer science) An error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that is intended to be written in a particular programming language.
sexpnoun(computing) Abbreviation of symbolic expression. [(computing) A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the Lisp programming language.]
shiftnounA movement to do something, a beginning.
elisionnoun(linguistics) The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.
code cavenoun(programming) A sequence of null bytes in a process's memory, offering the capacity for the injection of custom instructions by a hacker.
form feednoun(computing) A control character traditionally used to cause the printer to eject the current page of output and start a new page, more recently equivalent to a carriage return.
code blocknoun(programming) A block of source code, often one that is delimited by brackets or in some similar way, depending on the programming language.
leaning toothpick syndromenoun(programming) The situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision.
encodeverb(transitive) To convert (plain text) into code.
encodingnounA conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
switchnounA device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
tracenounAn act of tracing.
echonounA reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
scancodenoun(computing) A numeric code transmitted by a computer keyboard to indicate which keys are currently being pressed.

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