carriage return

1. 1.

   the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line

   Broaderprinting operation

Questions about carriage return

What does carriage return mean?

carriage return means "the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line".

Is carriage return a common word?

carriage return 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.