carriage return

Definitions

1. On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next 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 (newline).
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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Examples

“[…] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur⟳ for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return⟳ or a misnested quotation mark⟳ is all it takes.”

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