Usually means: Return cursor to line start.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word carriage return:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. carriage return: Merriam-Webster
  2. carriage return: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carriage return: Collins English Dictionary
  4. carriage return: Vocabulary.com
  5. carriage return: Wiktionary
  6. carriage return: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. carriage return: Dictionary.com
  8. Carriage Return, Carriage return: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. carriage return: Rhymezone
  10. carriage return: FreeDictionary.org
  11. carriage return: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. carriage return: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. carriage return: Legal dictionary
  2. carriage return: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Carriage Return: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. carriage return: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. carriage return: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carriage return: Idioms

(Note: See carriage_returns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (carriage return)

noun:  On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.
noun:  (computing) 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).
noun:  The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer).

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