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Carriage return
Meaning
Noun
●
On a
typewriter
or
computer
printer
, the
action
that
returns
it to the
beginning
of the next line.
●
In 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).
●
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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Wiktionary
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