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(historical, obsolete) A table or tray scattered with sand which was used for calculating or drawing.
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(computing) A standard carriage control character added to the start of each line of text to be printed on a line printer
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(computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
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(computing) The non-printable text character representing a backspace.
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The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
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(computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
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A list whose items start with the typographical bullet, that is •, or with other symbols other than numbers.
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(computing) A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the printer before each new line is printed
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(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.
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(computing) capable of displaying only text characters or having a text-based user interface
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(computing) Alternative spelling of codepage [(computing) A mapping to a particular character set, where there are several possible sets that share the same code points. Abbreviation: cp.]
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A line of text that is entered at such a prompt.
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(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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(computing) The two-character sequence carriage return, line feed.
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(computing) the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape
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(computing) A unique character or series of characters that indicates the beginning or end of a specific statement, string or function body set.
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One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
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Alternative form of double-spaced [(of text) Formatted so that there is a full blank line between each line of text; the style of formatting required by many entities inside business, academia, and publishing.]
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(computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
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(computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
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(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
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(computing, telecommunications) A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified.
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(computing, telecommunications) An escape character together with subsequent characters, not output as written, but specifying a particular behaviour.
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(programming) A string of text characters serving as a template for other strings, such as dd/MM/yyyy for a date.
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(cryptography) A four-square cipher.
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(computing) Any character used to specify a function of a piece of software or hardware (such as carriage return of a printer)
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An indicator of grammar errors in some word processing applications.
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Alternative form of hanging indentation [(typography) An indentation that indents the rest of the text while leaving the first line in place.]
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(computing, historical) A standard code defining the patterns of holes on punch cards that represent various text characters.
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(chiefly of text) That is written (and is read) from left to right.
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(computing) A character indicating that subsequent characters should appear on a separate line of text; newline, line feed.
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(computing) The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.
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(computing) The sequential number indicating a particular line of text in a text file.
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(computing) A mode of interaction with a remote server where all incoming text characters are printed to the current line, without the possibility of updating the text of previous lines.
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(computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
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(computing) A string of text having some special function or purpose.
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(computing, rare) A string of characters used as a placeholder for a variable data item.
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(HTML) Initialism of non-breaking space. [(computing) A variant of the space character that prevents text from wrapping onto the next line at that point.]
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(computing) The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.
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(programming) A word that may be included in source code for clarity but does not change the meaning.
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(computing) A variant of the space character that prevents text from wrapping onto the next line at that point.
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(computing) Synonym of control character
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(computing) A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).
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(computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
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(computing) A control character with the value zero and no visual representation.
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(computing) A command or small program consisting of a single line of input.
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(printing) The matter contained within brackets.
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(computing, typography) The character |.
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(computing) Consisting only of plain text.
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Ellipsis of QR code. [A two-dimensional barcode, typically used to link to a website.]
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(programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
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(computer science) A formal language that can be expressed using a regular expression or finite-state machine.
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(web design) A unit relative to the declared font size of the root element in a HTML document.
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(computing) A carriage return character.
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(computing, typography) A generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is later reflowed.
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A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
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(countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
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(typography) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
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(transitive, computing, typography) To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.
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(computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
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(computing) A text character that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
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(databases) A database containing a corpus of text for use by lexicographers etc.
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(computing, chiefly attributive) A display that supports text but not graphics.
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(programming) The operator ## in the C or C++ preprocessor, which permits separate tokens to be joined into a single token.
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(computing, typography) A metacharacter in Unicode that selects one of a set of semantically equivalent glyphs.
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A typewriter apostrophe.
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(computer science, uncountable) A contiguous collection of one or more characters that each represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.
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(often attributive) Alternative spelling of white space [White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).]
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(computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
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Prepared using a wordprocessor.
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(computing) In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.
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