Caret

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æɹət

From the Latin caret ("it lacks"), the third-person singular present active indicative form of careō ("I lack").

Full definition of caret

Noun

1. A mark: ⟨ 

1. (graphical user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also called a cursor.
2. (non-standard) A háček.
• 1944, Maro Beath Jones, Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish (Claremont Slavic Series, Claremont Colleges), page 10… the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (ˇ) respectively.
• 1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian) (Chicago: Czechoslovak National Council of America), 6The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound. The caret (ˇ) is also used over the vowel e (See Pronunciation II, b, p, v).
• 1991, Michael Shapiro, The Sense of Change: Language as History (Indiana University Press; ISBN 0253352037, 9780253352033), page 58In contemporary Czech, the “hook” or caret is no longer in use for lower-case t and d when the latter are palatal; instead, an apostrophe is used (t’, d’) This development is clearly connected with the practical difficulty encountered in printing a caret over letter stems that are too thin.

Derived terms

• inverted caret

French

Noun

1. A kind of turtle, the hawksbill.

Anagrams

• cater
• crate
• react
• recta
• trace