"paragraph break" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: paragraph breaks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} paragraph break (plural paragraph breaks)
  1. (writing systems, orthography) A place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing and/or a subsequent indent. Related terms: line break, page break, paragraph mark, section break, word break (english: intersyllabic break), word break (english: word boundary), topic sentence
    Sense id: en-paragraph_break-en-noun-ueINZU5u Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, writing
  2. (word processing, typography) A place within written content where such an orthographic break occurs; in computing, it is encoded with a hard return, which is sometimes represented visually with a pilcrow character (¶). Categories (topical): Typography
    Sense id: en-paragraph_break-en-noun-HZ8MvPZR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Topics: media, publishing, typography

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for paragraph break meaning in English (2.7kB)

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