English Explanatory Dictionary

paragraph break

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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 or a subsequent indent.
  2. 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 (¶).

Word forms

paragraph break paragraph breaks

Related words

line break page break paragraph mark section break word break topic sentence
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