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paragraph break

paragraph break noun: a place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing or a subsequent indent.

Noun

paragraph break (plural paragraph breaks)

  1. (writing systems) A place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing or a subsequent indent.
  2. (word processing) A place within written content where such an orthographic break occurs; in computing, it is encoded with a hard return, which is sometimes represented visually with a pilcrow character (¶).

Forms of paragraph break

pluralparagraph breaks

Questions about paragraph break

What does paragraph break mean?
Paragraph break means a place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing or a subsequent indent.
What part of speech is paragraph break?
Paragraph break is a noun.
What is the plural of paragraph break?
The plural of paragraph break is paragraph breaks.

Words near paragraph break in the dictionary

  1. paragrandine
  2. paragrandines
  3. paragranulin
  4. paragranulins
  5. paragraph
  6. paragraph break
  7. paragraph breaks
  8. paragraph character
  9. paragraph characters
  10. paragraph mark
  11. paragraph marker

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