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carets

carets is the plural of caret.

Meaning of caret

Noun (1)

caret (plural carets)

  1. A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
  2. An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩.
  3. (user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
  4. (nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩.
  5. (nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
    • […] the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (ˇ) respectively.1944, Maro Beath Jones, “Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish”, in Claremont Slavic Series, Claremont College, page 10

Noun (2)

caret (plural carets)

  1. (archaic) A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata).

Phrases with carets

Questions about carets

What is carets the plural of?
Carets is the plural of caret.

Words near carets in the dictionary

  1. caretakings
  2. careth
  3. caretlike
  4. caretook
  5. caretroside
  6. carets
  7. carettochelyid
  8. carettochelyids
  9. Carew
  10. careware
  11. carework

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