PRINTING OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does printing operation mean? 

• PRINTING OPERATION (noun)
  The noun PRINTING OPERATION has 1 sense:

1. an operation that controls the printing or display of information

  Familiarity information: PRINTING OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINTING OPERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation that controls the printing or display of information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("printing operation" is a kind of...):

operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "printing operation"):

carriage return (the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line)

line feed (the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed on the next line)

new line (the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on the next line)