Dictionary

carriage return en · NOUN

Meanings

1. On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.
2. The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely indicates the end of a line of text (newline).
   • […] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes. 1998, Jeff Frentzen, Henry Sobotka, Dewayne McNair, JavaScript Annotated Archives, page 28:
3. The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer).

Forms

Relateds

return · EOL · line feed · enter

Synonyms

mul:\r

Translations (23)

fi telanpalautus ((computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII)) · es retorno de carro (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · sv vagnretur (The key which initiates a carriage return action or generates the carriage return control character) · is vending (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · af wa-terugloop ((computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII)) · pl powrót karetki (The key which initiates a carriage return action or generates the carriage return control character) · fi telanpalautus (The key which initiates a carriage return action or generates the carriage return control character) · fi telanpalautus (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · pl powrót karetki (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · pl powrót karetki ((computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII)) · fr entrée (The key which initiates a carriage return action or generates the carriage return control character) · eo ĉaretreveno ((computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII)) · de Wagenrücklauf (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · fr retour chariot ((computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII)) · fr retour chariot (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · sv vagnåterföring (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · nl wagenterugloop (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · fi vaununpalautus ((computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII)) · eo ĉaretreveno (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · sv vagnretur ((computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII)) · de Wagenrücklauf (The key which initiates a carriage return action or generates the carriage return control character) · sv vagnretur (The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line) · de Wagenrücklaufzeichen ((computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII))