control character

English

Etymology

control +‎ character

Noun

control character (plural control characters)

1. (computing) A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.

   Synonym: non-printable character

   The tab, carriage return, and line feed are all control characters.

Hyponyms

• bell character
• carriage return
• delete character
• line feed
• null character
• tab

Translations

computing character

• Arabic: شَخْص (ar) (šaḵṣ)
• Czech: řídící znak m
• Finnish: kontrollimerkki
• Greek: χαρακτήρας ελέγχου (el) m (charaktíras elénchou)
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• Japanese: 制御文字 (seigyo moji)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: caracter de control n, tastă de control f
• Russian: управля́ющий си́мвол (ru) m (upravljájuščij símvol)