CARRIAGERETURN

Carriage return

A carriage return, sometimes known as a cartridge return and often shortened to CR, <CR> or return, is a control character or mechanism used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text. It is closely associated with the line feed and newline concepts, although it can be considered separately in its own right, as explained further below.

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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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