1. ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time; [syn: control character, ASCII control character]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ASCII control character
n 1: ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or
backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at
the same time [syn: control character, ASCII control
character]