Usually means: Insertion point indicator in text.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word caret:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. caret: Merriam-Webster
  2. caret: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caret: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caret: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caret: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caret, caret: Wordnik
  7. caret: Wiktionary
  8. caret: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. caret: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. caret: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Caret, caret: Dictionary.com
  12. caret: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Caret (disambiguation), Caret (punctuation), Caret (software), Caret: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Caret: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. caret: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. caret: Rhymezone
  17. Caret: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. caret: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. caret: FreeDictionary.org
  20. caret: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. caret: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. caret: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. caret: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. caret: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. Caret (computer), caret: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Caret (computer), caret: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CARET: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Caret: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

(Note: See carets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
noun:  An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨^⟩.
noun:  (user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
noun:  (nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩.
noun:  (nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
noun:  (archaic) A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata).

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