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paragraph breaks

paragraph breaks is the plural of paragraph break.

Meaning of paragraph break

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 (¶).

Questions about paragraph breaks

What is paragraph breaks the plural of?
Paragraph breaks is the plural of paragraph break.

Words near paragraph breaks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paragraph breaks (page history and authors); paragraph break (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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