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linefeed, n.|ˈlaɪnfiːd| Also line-feed, line feed. [f. line n.2 + feed n.] The action of causing paper to be advanced through a printer by the height of one line; an instance of this. Hence, in Computing, a similar action involving material displayed on-screen, either by downward movement of the cursor or by scrolling the displayed material up by one line; a character or code denoting such an action.
1966Proc. AFIPS Conf. XXIX. 399/2 The most elementary keyboard printer terminal uses such functions as idle, carriage return and line feed. 1966C. J. Sippl Computer Dict. & Handbk. (1967) 174/1 Line-feed code, a function code that causes page teleprinters or similar devices to rotate the platen up one line. 1979Practical Computing May 53/3 Other features include..automatic carriage return and line-feed, underlining, [etc.]. 1983Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Oct. 108/3 Down linefeeds, software formfeed, parallel or serial interface, backspacing, either by special code or two pass can be set from PRINTGEN. 1986D. Deutsch in T. C. Bartee Digital Communications v. 192 Each header-content..is terminated with a carriage-return character followed by a linefeed character. 1991Lit. & Linguistic Computing VI. 35/2 The ASCII-only approach—not in fact markup-free but effectively a restriction to procedural markup readily executed by a teletype machine (tabs, carriage returns, line feeds, backspaces, and punctuation)—represents a misguided and inadequate theory of texts. |