LINEFEED

line feed

Noun

  1. On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one, two or one and a half lines (as set elsewhere) when executing a carriage return.
  2. The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.

Verb

  1. To advance the page one line at a time, particularly in rapid succession.


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