| 释义 |
caret /ˈkarət /nounA mark (‸, ⁁) placed below the line to indicate a proposed insertion in a text.In fact, there is a linguistic analog: the use of carets, superscripts, and footnotes - all vertical operations - to embed new information in a finished text....- Not only do I underscore; I use brackets, carets, and braces; I annotate all four margins and I copiously turn down the edges (both top and bottom) of certain especially memorable pages.
- A dart (>) marks the last nucleotide for each gene and indicates the direction of transcription; nucleotides participating in termination codons of protein-coding genes are underscored with carets.
Origin Late 17th century: from Latin, 'is lacking'. |