paragraph break

noun — 2 senses

paragraph break

noun
1

Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Orthography, Publishing, Writing 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 or a subsequent indent.

Writing systems

2

Media, Publishing, 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 (¶).

Word processing

Related terms
line break, page break, paragraph mark, section break, word break, topic sentence

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