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control characters

control characters is the plural of control character.

Meaning of control character

Noun

control character (plural control characters)

  1. A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.
    • The tab, carriage return, and line feed are all control characters.

Questions about control characters

What is control characters the plural of?
Control characters is the plural of control character.

Words near control characters in the dictionary

  1. control center
  2. control centers
  3. control centre
  4. control centres
  5. control character
  6. control characters
  7. control chart
  8. control charts
  9. control cities
  10. control city
  11. control code

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Adapted from Wiktionary: control characters (page history and authors); 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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