printing operation

/ˌprɪntɪŋ ˈɑpəˌreɪʃən/
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Other forms: printing operations

Definitions of printing operation
  1. noun
    an operation that controls the printing or display of information
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    types:
    carriage return
    the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line
    line feed
    the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed on the next line
    new line
    the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on the next line
    type of:
    operation
    (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
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