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carriage control characters

carriage control characters is the plural of carriage control character.

Meaning of carriage control character

Noun

carriage control character (plural carriage control characters)

  1. A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the printer before each new line is printed

Questions about carriage control characters

What is carriage control characters the plural of?
Carriage control characters is the plural of carriage control character.

Words near carriage control characters in the dictionary

  1. carriage bolt
  2. carriage bolts
  3. carriage clock
  4. carriage clocks
  5. carriage control character
  6. carriage control characters
  7. carriage dog
  8. carriage dogs
  9. carriage door
  10. carriage doors
  11. carriage dress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carriage control characters (page history and authors); carriage control character (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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