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control character

noun

Meaning

  1. 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.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

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Related words

ascii control character(English)non-printing character(English)special character(English)non-printable character(English)asa character(English)character(English)carriage control character(English)metacharacter(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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