carriage return

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

carriage return
    n 1: the operation that prepares for the next character to be
         printed or displayed as the first character on a line

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Carriage Return
CR

   <character> (CR, Control-M, {ASCII} 13) The character which
   causes the {cursor} to move to the left margin, often used
   with {line feed} to start a new line of output.

   Encoded in {C} and {Unix} as "\r".

   (1996-06-24)