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Caret

Caret Meaning & Definition
Caret Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Caret?

[n] a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text

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Caret In Webster's Dictionary

\Ca"ret\, 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.
\Ca`ret"\, n. [F., a species of tortoise.] (Zo["o]l.) The hawkbill turtle. See {Hawkbill}.

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