/ter'pree/ TERminate PRInt line. [LISP 1.5 and later,
MacLISP] To output a newline. Still used in Common
LISP. On some early operating systems and hardware, no
characters would be printed until a complete line was formed,
so this operation terminated the line and emitted the output.
[Jargon File]
(1996-06-24)
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