Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
hawkbill \hawk"bill`\, hawksbill \hawks"bill`\(-b[i^]l`), n.
(Zool.)
A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the
best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.
Syn: hawksbill turtle, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle,
Eretmochelys imbricata.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Caret \Ca"ret\ (k[=a]"r[e^]t or k[a^]r"[e^]t), n. [L. caret
there is wanting, fr. carere to want.]
A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that
something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin,
which belongs in the place marked by the caret.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Caret \Ca`ret"\, n. [F., a species of tortoise.] (Zool.)
The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
caret
n 1: a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where
something is to be inserted into a text
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
caret
^
"^" ASCII character 94.
Common names: caret; hat; control (control character); uparrow;
ITU-T:
circumflex. Rare: chevron; INTERCAL: shark, shark-fin; to the (as
in "X
to the power of Y" - the exponentiation operator); fang; pointer
(in Pascal).