Control character

noun

Definitions

1.nounA 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.

Synonyms

non-printable character ascii control character non-printing character special character asa character character carriage control character metacharacter escape character pseudocharacter combining character charakter

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