The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /. It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names...
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Look up slash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slash may refer to: Slash (punctuation), the "/" character Slash (Marvel Comics) Slash (Teenage Mutant...
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Backslash (redirect from Back slash)
common slash /. It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh...
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Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. The oldest known...
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Bracket (redirect from Bracket (punctuation))
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They...
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Full stop (redirect from Period (punctuation))
(Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point . is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative...
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Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility...
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The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted...
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Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. English...
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behavior. This browser and your default font render it as 3⁄4. (See Slash (punctuation)#Fractions for rendering in various other fonts.) The most common...
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refer to: an alternative name for the character usually called a slash (punctuation) ( / ) Oblique angle, in geometry Oblique triangle, in geometry Oblique...
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Exclamation mark (redirect from Exclamation mark (punctuation))
exclamation mark ! (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong...
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Vertical bar (redirect from Vertical slash)
the more common forward slash (/) delimiter; using a vertical bar eliminates the need to escape all instances of the forward slash. However, this makes the...
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caesura in musical notation a diaphoneme in linguistic transcription Slash (punctuation) Backslash /\ (disambiguation) /r/ (disambiguation) \/ (disambiguation)...
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Apostrophe (redirect from Apostrophe (punctuation))
The apostrophe (’, ') is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English...
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Hyphen (redirect from Hyphen (punctuation))
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen...
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shared object file format /, the XML/HTML character entity for the slash (punctuation) Sleep onset latency - length of time of the transition from full...
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Comma (redirect from Comma (punctuation))
The comma , is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or...
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graphics Bar (diacritic) or stroke, a line drawn across a grapheme. Slash (punctuation), the typographical character, is also known as a "stroke" Stroke...
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Dagger (mark) (redirect from Dagger (punctuation))
vertically arranged dots, a γ-like symbol, a mallet-like symbol, or a diagonal slash (with or without one or two dots). They indicated the end of a marked passage...
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Look up / in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. / or "slash" is a slanting line punctuation mark. It may also refer to: Root directory, a computer directory...
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when it may be otherwise ambiguous. Tone indicators start with a forward slash (/), followed by a short series of letters, usually a shortening of another...
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Interpunct (redirect from Midpoint (punctuation))
an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation...
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Vietnamese punctuation (Vietnamese: chấm câu) refers to the usage of punctuation marks in Vietnamese texts. Historically, the Vietnamese language was...
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Money Roman and Byzantine coinage Bezant Hoxne Hoard Solidus and slash punctuation marks Mattingly, Harold (1946). "The Monetary Systems of the Roman...
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Roman and Byzantine coinage Bezant Nomisma Hoxne Hoard Solidus and slash punctuation marks Charlemagne - The Middle Ages Archived 2017-11-09 at the Wayback...
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Asterisk (redirect from Star (punctuation))
In English-language typography the asterisk is placed after all other punctuation marks (for example, commas, colons, or periods) except for the dash....
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Anthimeria (section Slash)
"Slash: Not Just a Punctuation Mark Anymore". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 23 October 2013. Ann Curzon, "Slash: Not Just a Punctuation...
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Basic Latin (Unicode block) (redirect from Basic Latin punctuation)
U+007F, contains 128 characters and includes the C0 controls, ASCII punctuation and symbols, ASCII digits, both the uppercase and lowercase of the English...
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Solidus (coin), a Roman coin of nearly solid gold Solidus (punctuation), or slash, a punctuation mark Solidus (chemistry), the line on a phase diagram below...
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