paragraph break

English

Noun

paragraph break (plural paragraph breaks)

1. (writing systems, orthography) A place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing or a subsequent indent.
2. (word processing, typography) A place within written content where such an orthographic break occurs; in computing, it is encoded with a hard return, which is sometimes represented visually with a pilcrow character (¶).

Related terms

• line break, page break, paragraph mark, section break, word break (intersyllabic break), word break (word boundary)

Translations

Translations

Spanish: salto de párrafo m, salto de parágrafo m

See also

• topic sentence