CONTROL CHARACTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does control character mean? 

• CONTROL CHARACTER (noun)
  The noun CONTROL CHARACTER has 1 sense:

1. ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time

  Familiarity information: CONTROL CHARACTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTROL CHARACTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ASCII control character; control character

Hypernyms ("control character" is a kind of...):

ASCII character (any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "control character"):

backspace character (a control character that indicates moving a space to the left)