/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)