line feed

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.2 Verb 1.3 See also 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Noun

line feed

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.

[edit] Verb

to line feed

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

[edit] See also

• carriage return
• control character
• control code
• double-spaced
• EOL
• one-and-a-half-spaced
• printer
• single-space
• typewriter
• word processing

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: deeefiln
• feedline