line feed

English

Noun

line feed (plural line feeds)

1. On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one, two or one and a half lines (as set elsewhere) when executing a carriage return.
2. (computing) The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.

Translations

computing: the character which advances the paper by one line or moves cursor to the next line

Icelandic: línuskiptastafur (is) m.

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German: Zeilenvorschub (de) m. Turkish: satır atlatma (tr), satır besleme (tr), satır ilerletme (tr), line-besleme (tr)

Verb

line feed (third-person singular simple present line feeds, present participle line feeding, simple past and past participle line fed)

1. To advance the page one line at a time, particularly in rapid succession.

See also

carriage return control character control code double-spaced EOL

one-and-a-half-spaced printer single-space typewriter word processing

Anagrams

• feedline