English Dictionary

carriage return

名詞

On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.

日本語の意味

タイプライターやコンピュータプリンターにおいて、用紙上の印字位置を次の行の先頭に戻す動作

When formatting the letter on her old typewriter, she pulled the carriage return lever to move to the next line.

古いタイプライターで手紙を整えているとき、彼女は行の先頭に戻すレバーを引いて次の行に移動した。

意味（1）

On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.

意味（2）

(computing) 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.

[…] 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.

意味（3）

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 ）