( CR) - A control character ( ASCII: 13) specifying that the next character is to be displayed at the leftmost position of the current line. In older mechanical character printing devices the carriage was moved to cause printing in different character positions of the same line. In a PC the CR code is generated by pressing the Enter key on the keyboard, and stored in most text file s at the end of each line. See also ASCII, End of Line.
Abbreviated CR. A nonprinting character that tells the computer or printer to end a line of text and start a new one. It's used to end paragraphs. Even though you can't see them, you can delete carriage returns the same way you delete other characters.
the act of returning to the beginning of the current line, abbreviated
the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line
a normally hidden code that indicates that the text following it should appear on the next line
a character used to indicate the end of a line or paragraph, so-called because the Return key on a typewriter causes the "carriage" to "return" to the left side of the page. Note that a carriage return does not necessarily move the cursor to the next line, which may require a line feed character as well. See CR, CR/LF.
Originally, carriage return was the term for the lever or mechanism on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held (the carriage) to return to the left side of the paper after a line of text had been typed, and would usually move the paper to the next line as well. The first power carriage return was added to electric typewriters by Smith Corona in 1960. The key for this was usually labelled "carriage return" or "return".