line feed

advance of one line

For other uses, see New Line (disambiguation). In computing, a newline (also known as a line break or end-of-line / EOL character) is a special character or sequence of characters signifying the end of a line of text. The name comes from the fact that the next character after the newline will appear on a new line — that is, on the next line below the text immediately preceding the newline. The actual codes representing a newline vary across hardware platforms and operating systems, which can be a problem when exchanging data between systems with different representations.
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Noun
1. the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed on the next line
(hypernym) printing operation

<character> (LF, control-J, ASCII 10) The ASCII character meaning move the cursor down to the same column on the next line. Originally this would have been done by "feeding" paper through the printer.
Unix uses line feed as its text line terminator (newline character).
(1997-07-14)

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