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"sense": "The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line",
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"sense": "The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line",
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"sense": "The action on a typewriter or printer that returns it to the beginning of the line",
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"word": "retorno de carro"
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"sense": "(computing) The carriage return control character (0x0D in ASCII)",
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"sense": "The key which initiates a carriage return action or generates the carriage return control character",
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