| Subject | Spanish | English |
| commun. | carácter de control ESC | escape code |
| commun. | carácter de control ESC | control character ESC |
| comp., MS | secuencia Control Esc | control escape sequence (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "c" followed by one of the letters "a" through "z" or "A" through 'Z'. It matches the ASCII control character that is named by that letter) |
| comp., MS | tecla Esc | ESC key (A keyboard key that sends the escape (ESC) character to the computer. Often this key moves the user back one level in the menu structure or exits the program) |