/ter' pree/ TERminATe PRInt line. [LISP 1.5 and lATer, MacLISP] To output a newline. Still used in {Common LISP}. On some early {operATing system}s 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)