control character

English

Etymology

control +‎ character

Noun

control character (plural control characters)

(computing) A 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.
Synonym: non-printable character

The tab, carriage return, and line feed are all control characters.

Hyponyms

Translations

computing character

Arabic: شَخْص‎ (ar) (šaḵṣ)
Czech: řídící znak m
Esperanto: stirsigno, regsigno, signalo
Finnish: kontrollimerkki
Greek: χαρακτήρας ελέγχου (el) m (charaktíras elénchou)
Japanese: 制御文字 (seigyo moji)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: caracter de control n, tastă de control f
Russian: управля́ющий си́мвол (ru) m (upravljájuščij símvol)
Spanish: carácter de control m

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