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CARRIAGE RETURN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carriage return mean? 

CARRIAGE RETURN (noun)
  The noun CARRIAGE RETURN has 1 sense:

1. the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a lineplay

  Familiarity information: CARRIAGE RETURN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARRIAGE RETURN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("carriage return" is a kind of...):

printing operation (an operation that controls the printing or display of information)


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