• The standard name for the “^” character on QWERTY keyboards. In programming, it serves various roles depending on the language, including exponentiation, bitwise XOR, and regex anchoring. In text editing, a caret also refers to the blinking cursor marking the insertion point. Its name derives from the proofreader’s mark (“‸”), which indicates where text should be inserted.

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