NEW LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does new line mean? 

• NEW LINE (noun)
  The noun NEW LINE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NEW LINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW LINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("new line" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

I thought it was the end of us, but instead of that it started them on a new line.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Before this, assembling 10 genes to insert into a new line would be difficult or impossible, but this technology basically stabilizes the stack and makes for results that are more stable and much easier to predict.

(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)