bell character

English

Alternative forms

␇ (symbol)
BEL (label)

Etymology

bell +‎ character

Noun

bell character (plural bell characters)

(computing) 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.

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