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soft returns

soft returns is the plural of soft return.

Meaning of soft return

Noun

soft return (plural soft returns)

  1. The type of newline that represents either a natural line break resulting from word wrap, or one specifically inserted inside a paragraph (not between paragraphs); sometimes represented visually with a bent-arrow character (↲).
    • Near-synonyms: soft break, line break, carriage return, newline

Questions about soft returns

What is soft returns the plural of?
Soft returns is the plural of soft return.

Words near soft returns in the dictionary

  1. soft release
  2. soft reset
  3. soft resets
  4. soft resetting
  5. soft return
  6. soft returns
  7. soft robot
  8. soft robotics
  9. soft robots
  10. soft rock
  11. soft roe

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