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terpri /ter'pree/ vi.
[from LISP 1.5 (and later, MacLISP)] To output a [newline]. Now rare as jargon, though still used as techspeak in Common LISP. It is a contraction of `TERminate PRInt line', named for the fact that, on some early OSes and hardware, no characters would be printed until a complete line was formed, so this operation terminated the line and emitted the output.
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