line feed

line feed

See also: linefeed

English

Noun

line feed (plural line feeds)

1. On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines when executing a carriage return.
2. (computing) 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.

Translations

computing: the character which advances the paper by one line or moves cursor to the next line

Finnish: rivinsiirto German: Zeilenvorschub m

Icelandic: línuskiptastafur m Turkish: satır atlatma, satır besleme

Verb

line feed (third-person singular simple present line feeds, present participle line feeding, simple past and past participle line fed)

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

See also

• carriage return
• control character
• control code
• double-spaced
• EOL

• one-and-a-half-spaced
• printer
• single-space
• typewriter
• word processing

Anagrams

• feedline