ASCII character

/ˌæski ˌkɛr(ə)ktər/
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Other forms: ASCII characters

Definitions of ASCII character
  1. noun
    any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers
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    types:
    ASCII control character, control character
    ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time
    backspace character
    a control character that indicates moving a space to the left
    type of:
    character, grapheme, graphic symbol
    a written symbol that is used to represent speech
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