carriage return
noun1
On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely indicates the end of a line of text (newline).
- […] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes.1998, Jeff Frentzen, Henry Sobotka, Dewayne McNair, JavaScript Annotated Archives, page 28:
3
The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer).