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terms | backspaceable |

As a noun terms

is .

As an adjective backspaceable is

(computing|rare) supporting a backspace function.

terms

English

Noun

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    backspaceable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (computing, rare) Supporting a backspace function.
  • * 1992 , "Joseph M. Newcomer", ASCII'' (on newsgroup ''alt.folklore.computers )
    • The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.
  • * 2009 , "Richard Maine", Error writing on unit 22'' (on newsgroup ''comp.lang.fortran )
    • Anyway, the standard does allow for non-backspaceable files, at the compiler's choice.