escape sequence

noun

escape sequence

noun

1

Communications, Computing, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Telecommunications An escape character together with subsequent characters, not output as written, but specifying a particular behaviour.

In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example, \n is an escape sequence which represents a newline.

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