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/n[y]ooli:n/ , n. 1. [techspeak, primarily Unix] The ASCII LF character
(0001010), used under Unix as a text line terminator. Though the term
newline appears in ASCII standards, it never caught on in the general
computing world before Unix. 2. More generally, any magic character,
character sequence, or operation (like Pascal's writeln procedure) required
to terminate a text record or separate lines. See crlf.