paragraph break
English
Noun
paragraph break (plural paragraph breaks)
- (writing systems, orthography) A place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing and/or a subsequent indent.
- (word processing, typography) A place within written content where such an orthographic break occurs; in computing, it is encoded with a hard return, which is sometimes represented visually with a pilcrow character (¶).
Related terms
- line break, page break, paragraph mark, section break, word break (intersyllabic break), word break (word boundary)
See also
- topic sentence