line feed

1. 1.

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

   Broaderprinting operation

Questions about line feed

What does line feed mean?

line feed means "the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed on the next line".

Is line feed a common word?

line feed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.