Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A proofreading symbol (⁁) used to indicate where something is to be inserted in a line of printed or written matter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mark (∧) used in writing, in correcting printers' proofs, etc., to indicate the proper place of something that is interlined or written in the margin.
  • noun A name of the hawkbill sea-turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The hawkbill turtle. See hawkbill.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.
  • noun nonstandard A háček.
  • noun A kind of turtle, the hawksbill.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, there is lacking, third person sing. present tense of carēre, to lack; see kes- in Indo-European roots.]

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From the Latin caret ("it lacks"), the third-person singular present active indicative form of careō ("I lack").

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    April 23, 2008