English Explanatory Dictionary

line feed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return.
  2. The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.
  3. A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.
verb
  1. To advance the page one line at a time, particularly in rapid succession.

Word forms

line feed line feeds line feeding line fed

Antonyms

reverse line feed

Related words

double-spaced EOL one-and-a-half-spaced printer single-space typewriter word processing
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