Usually means: Special characters for managing text.
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  1. control character: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. control character: Vocabulary.com
  3. control character: Wiktionary
  4. control character: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. control character: Dictionary.com
  6. Control character: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. control character: Rhymezone
  8. control character: FreeDictionary.org
  9. control character: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. control character: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. control character: Encyclopedia

(Note: See control_characters 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.

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