English Explanatory Dictionary

newline

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

newline newlines

Etymology

From new + line, Coined by Bell Laboratories during development of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system.

Synonyms

line break carriage return end-of-line mul:\n

Related words

control character control code escape character escape sequence
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