carriage return

名词 n.

中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.

On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.
The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely indicates the end of a line of text (newline).

— […] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes.
The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer).

carriage returns plural