ascii control character

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   ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time

   Synonymscontrol character

   BroaderASCII character

   Narrowerbackspace character

Questions about ascii control character

What does ascii control character mean?

ascii control character means "ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time".

What is another word for ascii control character?

Close synonyms include control character. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ascii control character a common word?

ascii control character is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.