"soft return" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: soft returns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} soft return (plural soft returns)
  1. (computing) The type of newline that represents either a natural line break resulting from word wrap, or one specifically inserted inside a paragraph (not between paragraphs); sometimes represented visually with a bent-arrow character (↲). Categories (topical): Computing Translations (Translations): rivinvaihto (english: line break in general, but contrasting with kappaleenvaihto (“paragraph break, hard return”)) (Finnish), weicher Zeilenumbruch [masculine] (German), miękki enter [masculine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

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