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Definition of Carriage return
1. Noun. The operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line.
Definition of Carriage return
1. Noun. On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the line. ¹
2. Noun. (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. ¹
3. Noun. The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carriage Return
Literary usage of Carriage return
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"1 The general median time of the carriage return in the first quoted operator
... Book's allowance of three strokes for the carriage return would therefore ..."
2. Telegraph Engineering: A Manual for Practicing Telegraph Engineers and by Erich Hausmann (1922)
"The carriage, holding the paper upon which the message is printed, is returned
to the starting position by means of the carriage-return magnet, ..."
3. SAS(R) Component Language 9.1:: Reference, Volumes 1 and 2 by SAS Institute (2004)
"This option makes the carriage-return key work like a horizontal tab key. ...
Type: Character return specifies whether a carriage return passes control back ..."
4. SAS(R) 9.1.3 Language Reference:: Dictionary, Fifth Edition, Volumes 1-4 by SAS Institute (2006)
"... horizontal and vertical tab, carriage return, line feed, form feed) and returns
the first position at which it is found Category: Character Syntax ..."
5. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Developer's Workshopby John Clark Craig, Jeff Webb by John Clark Craig, Jeff Webb (1998)
"Name ‘Add a carriage return and line feed Editor . Insert vbCrLf Next ‘Move back
1 Editor . MoveLeft ‘Delete the last carriage return and line feed Editor . ..."
6. Moving and Accessing SAS(R) 9.1 Files by Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"1 on page shows an example of a transport file that contains a carriage-return
character (OD) and a line-feed character (OA) toward the end ofthe first ..."
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