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Carriage Return

Noun:

The carriage return, often abbreviated as "CR", is a control character used to reset the character position to the beginning of a line of text in a document.

Example sentence:

The typewriter requires a carriage return after each line of text.

Verb:

To carriage return is to perform the action of moving the cursor or pointer to the beginning of a new line in a computer program or document.

Example sentence:

Please carriage return your text after writing each paragraph.

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• Typewriter
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