caret

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/, /ˈkæɹ.ət/, /ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/, /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/, /ˈkæɹ.ət/
• (weak vowel merger) homophones en

Noun

caret (plural carets)

1. A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
2. (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.
3. (non-standard) A circumflex, ⟨ ＾ ⟩.
4. (non-standard) A háček, ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
   • 1944, Maro Beath Jones, Inclusive Uniform Alphabet for Russian, Bulgarian, Serb-Croatian, Czech, Polish (Claremont Slavic Series, Claremont College), 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), 6 ↗

     The 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 58 ↗

     In 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.

Translations

• Portuguese: acento circunflexo
• Spanish: signo de intercalación

Noun

caret (plural carets)

1. A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata).

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