carriage return

2 definitions found

carriage return - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  carriage return
      n 1: the operation that prepares for the next character to be
           printed or displayed as the first character on a line

carriage return - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Carriage Return
  CR
  
     <character> (CR, Control-M, ASCII 13) The character which
     causes the cursor to move to the left margin, often used
     with line feed to start a new line of output.
  
     Encoded in C and Unix as "\r".
  
     (1996-06-24)