carets
- 1Plural of caret.
The proofreader scattered carets throughout the draft wherever a phrase had been left out.
Some programming languages use carets to denote exponentiation or bitwise operations.
Note
One plural covers several different marks. Proofreaders' carets (‸) show where something must be inserted. In computing, carets (＾) stand for exponentiation, and the blinking bar marking the next edit is also a caret, though most people call it a cursor. Calling circumflexes or háčeks carets is nonstandard, so name those accents properly. An archaic use once applied the word to hawksbill turtles.
carets is a form of caret
caret, noun: A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to show that something should be inserted at that point in the text. Full entry
- Forms
- caretcarets plural
- Spelling
- caret → carets: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
Use it in a sentence
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