CARET

Caret

The caret is an inverted V-shaped grapheme. Specifically, caret commonly refers to the spacing character ^ in ASCII and other character sets that may also be called a hat, control, uparrow, or less frequently chevron, xor sign, to the [power of], fang, shark, pointer, or wedge. Officially, this character is referred to as circumflex accent in both ASCII and Unicode terminology, whereas caret refers to a similar but lowered Unicode character: . Additionally, there is another lowered variant with a stroke: .

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caret

Noun

  1. A mark 1 used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is to be inserted in the place marked by the caret.
  2. An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor.
  3. A .

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A kind of turtle, the hawksbill.


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