overstrike|overstrikes in English
noun
mode in a dot matrix printer in which the print head makes two passes over each line in order to improve print quality (Computers)
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1. In typewriters, a typist would, for example, type a lowercase letter A with acute accent (á) by typing a lowercase letter A, backspace and then the acute accent key (also known as overstrike ). This is the basis for such spacing modifiers in computer character sets such as the ASCII caret (^, for the circumflex accent).