Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
carriage return
n 1: the operation that prepares for the next character to be
printed or displayed as the first character on a line
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
carriage return
(CR, Control-M, ASCII 13) The character which
causes the cursor to move to the left margin, often used
with line feed to start a new line of output.
Encoded in C and Unix as "\r".
(1996-06-24)