newline
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "Microsoft Windows uses CRLF to represent a newline."
- "The ugly part is the quote marks on two adjacent lines that mean a newline character."
- "The calculator program starts off by printing the string "0\n", that is, it prints a zero and then moves to a newline."
- "Unlike in C, you don't have to loop through the output and watch every character to make sure it's a newline; Perl will keep track of that for you."
- "It contains only a single statement, which outputs a newline character. (That's what happens when you use a print command without any arguments.)"
- "The original Unix regex tools worked on a line-by-line basis, so the thought of matching a newline wasn't an issue until the advent of sed and lex."
Etymology
From new + line, Coined by Bell Laboratories during development of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system.
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
control character
control code
escape character
escape sequence
line break
carriage return
end-of-line
mul:\n