Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carriage control character

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English

Syllables: car-riage -con-trol char-ac-ter
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Inflected Forms

carriage control characters (plural)

Questions

What does carriage control character mean?: 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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