paragraph break
noun1
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