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bell characters

bell characters is the plural of bell character.

Meaning of bell character

Noun

bell character (plural bell characters)

  1. A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, it generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or, as a silent visual alternative, may cause the terminal window to flash briefly.

Questions about bell characters

What is bell characters the plural of?
Bell characters is the plural of bell character.

Words near bell characters in the dictionary

  1. bell captain
  2. bell captains
  3. bell cart
  4. bell carts
  5. bell character
  6. bell characters
  7. bell chord
  8. bell chords
  9. Bell Common
  10. bell cot
  11. bell cots

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