Usually means: Non-printing characters managing text flow.
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  1. control characters: Vocabulary.com
  2. control characters: Wiktionary
  3. Control characters: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Control characters: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Control characters: Encyclopedia

(Note: See control_character as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (control character)

noun:  (computing) A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.
▸ Also see control_character

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