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carriage return

–noun
1. (on a typewriter) the key or mechanism that causes the next character typed to appear at the left margin and on a new line.
2. Computers. the symbol, command, or key (return) that causes the printer to be positioned or the cursor to be displayed at the left margin.
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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".
(1996-06-24)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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