Control Character (Noun)
Meaning
ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The user had to type the control character to get to the next line of the text document.
- Control characters are non-printable ASCII characters that serve various purposes like carriage return and line feed.
- She used a control character to tab to the next cell in the spreadsheet program.
- He typed a control character to delete the last character in the line.
- Pressing the control key along with the character key on the keyboard entered a special control character in the terminal window.