carriage return

<character>

(CR, Control-M, ASCII 13) The character which causes the cursor to move to the left margin, often used with line feed to start a new line of output.

Encoded in C and Unix as "\r".

Last updated: 1996-06-24

Nearby terms:

carpal tunnel syndrome ♦ carriage return ♦ Carrierless Amplitude/Phase Modulation

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