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Control character Moderate

Control character has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
ASCII character
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
backspace character
Rhyming Words
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