caret

Noun

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
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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]
Caret \Ca`ret"\, n. [F., a species of tortoise.] (Zool.) The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

caret ^

<character> "^" 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).

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