"newline" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: newlines [plural]
Etymology: From new + line, Coined by Bell Laboratories during development of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system. Etymology templates: {{af|en|new|line}} new + line, {{coinage|en|Bell Laboratories|sort=b}} Coined by Bell Laboratories Head templates: {{en-noun}} newline (plural newlines)
  1. (computing) The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character. Wikipedia link: C (programming language), UNIX, newline Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: line break, carriage return, end-of-line, mul:\n Related terms: control character, control code, escape character, escape sequence Translations (Translations): rivinvaihto (Finnish), fin de ligne [feminine] (French), saut de ligne [masculine] (French), Zeilenumbruchzeichen [neuter] (German), Newline-Zeichen [neuter] (German), koniec linii [masculine] (Polish), koniec wiersza [masculine] (Polish)

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