control character
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| Noun | 1. | control character - ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time ASCII character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers backspace character - a control character that indicates moving a space to the left |
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