bell character (English, noun)
expansion: bell character (plural bell characters)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A control character with the value seven (Unicode code point U+0007, ASCII 0x07), originally used to ring a bell on telegraphy equipment to alert the operator to an incoming message; on modern computers, generally causes a beep or buzzer to sound when printed to a terminal window, or may cause the terminal window to flash briefly.
Forms:
form: bell characters
tags: plural
form: ␇
tags: alternative
symbol
form: BEL
tags: alternative