See delete character on Wiktionary
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"the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape"
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{
"word": "carriage return"
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"(computing) the last character in the ASCII repertoire, coded as 127, designed to erase incorrect characters on paper tape"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (cdfa371 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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