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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Programs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Programs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3.4 Programs </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Programs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Electronics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Electronics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.4 Electronics </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Electronics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Currency" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Currency"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.5 Currency </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Currency-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dates" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dates"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.6 Dates </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dates-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Numbering" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Numbering"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.7 Numbering </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Numbering-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Linguistic_transcription" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Linguistic_transcription"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.8 Linguistic transcription </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Linguistic_transcription-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Poetry" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Poetry"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.9 Poetry </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Poetry-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Line_breaks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Line_breaks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.10 Line breaks </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Line_breaks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Abbreviation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Abbreviation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.11 Abbreviation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Abbreviation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Proofreading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Proofreading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.12 Proofreading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Proofreading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Typist" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Typist"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.13 Typist </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Typist-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fiction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fiction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.14 Fiction </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fiction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Libraries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Libraries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.15 Libraries </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Libraries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Addresses" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Addresses"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.16 Addresses </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Addresses-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Music" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Music"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.17 Music </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Music-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.18 Sports </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Text_messaging" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Text_messaging"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.19 Text messaging </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Text_messaging-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Before_an_e-signature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Before_an_e-signature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.20 Before an e-signature </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Before_an_e-signature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-As_a_letter" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#As_a_letter"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.21 As a letter </div> </a> <ul id="toc-As_a_letter-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spacing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spacing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Spacing </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spacing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Encoding" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Encoding"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Encoding </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Encoding-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alternative_names" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alternative_names"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Alternative names </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alternative_names-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled 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data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barreta_dreita" title="Barreta dreita – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Barreta dreita" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87%C9%99p%C9%99ki_x%C9%99tt" title="Çəpəki xətt – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Çəpəki xətt" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosa_crta" title="Kosa crta – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Kosa crta" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_obliqua" title="Barra obliqua – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Barra obliqua" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lom%C3%ADtko" title="Lomítko – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Lomítko" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skr%C3%A5streg" title="Skråstreg – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Skråstreg" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%A4gstrich" title="Schrägstrich – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Schrägstrich" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_(tipograf%C3%ADa)" title="Barra (tipografía) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Barra (tipografía)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblikvo" title="Oblikvo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Oblikvo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_(ikurra)" title="Barra (ikurra) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Barra (ikurra)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%B7_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8" title="خط مورب – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="خط مورب" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barre_oblique" title="Barre oblique – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Barre oblique" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_diagonal" title="Barra diagonal – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Barra diagonal" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xal mw-list-item"><a href="https://xal.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%88" title="Слеш – Kalmyk" lang="xal" hreflang="xal" data-title="Слеш" data-language-autonym="Хальмг" data-language-local-name="Kalmyk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Хальмг</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%97%EA%B8%88" title="빗금 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="빗금" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosa_crta" title="Kosa crta – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kosa crta" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanda_garis_miring" title="Tanda garis miring – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Tanda garis miring" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_obliqua" title="Barra obliqua – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Barra obliqua" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%9F" title="לוכסן – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="לוכסן" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkwajumbele" title="Mkwajumbele – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Mkwajumbele" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%AAza_xwar_(xalbend%C3%AE)" title="Xêza xwar (xalbendî) – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Xêza xwar (xalbendî)" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasvirasis_br%C5%ABk%C5%A1nys" title="Pasvirasis brūkšnys – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Pasvirasis brūkšnys" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferde_vonal" title="Ferde vonal – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ferde vonal" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B0_%D1%86%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0" title="Коса црта – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Коса црта" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B0" title="ചായ്‌വര – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ചായ്‌വര" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuine_streep" title="Schuine streep – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Schuine streep" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5_(%E8%A8%98%E5%8F%B7)" title="スラッシュ (記号) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スラッシュ (記号)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skr%C3%A5strek" title="Skråstrek – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Skråstrek" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_oblica" title="Barra oblica – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Barra oblica" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uko%C5%9Bnik" title="Ukośnik – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ukośnik" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_(caractere)" title="Barra (caractere) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Barra (caractere)" 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It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and <a href="#Alternative_names">several other historical or technical names</a>. Once used to mark <a href="/wiki/Full_stop" title="Full stop">periods</a> and <a href="/wiki/Comma" title="Comma">commas</a>, the slash is now used to represent <a href="#Division">division</a> and <a href="#Fractions">fractions</a>, <a href="#XOR">exclusive 'or'</a> and <a href="#And">inclusive 'or'</a>, and as a <a href="#Dating">date separator</a>. A slash in the reverse direction \ is known as a <a href="/wiki/Backslash" title="Backslash">backslash</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> Slashes may be found in early writing as a variant form of <a href="/wiki/Dash_(typography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dash (typography)">dashes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vertical_bar" title="Vertical bar">vertical strokes</a>, etc. The present use of a slash distinguished from such other marks derives from the <a href="/wiki/Medieval_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval Europe">medieval European</a> <a href="#virgule">virgule</a> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: virgula, <abbr title="literally">lit</abbr>. "twig"), which was used as a <a href="/wiki/Full_stop" title="Full stop">period</a>, <a href="#scratch">scratch comma</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Caesura_mark" class="mw-redirect" title="Caesura mark">caesura mark</a>.<a href="#cite_note-virg-1">[1]</a> (The first sense was eventually lost to the <a href="/wiki/Full_stop" title="Full stop">low dot</a> and the other two developed separately into the <a href="/wiki/Comma" title="Comma">comma</a> , and <a href="/wiki/Caesura_mark" class="mw-redirect" title="Caesura mark">caesura mark</a> ||) Its use as a comma became especially widespread in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" title="Kingdom of France">France</a>, where it was also used to mark the continuation of a word onto the next line of a page, a sense later taken on by the <a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">hyphen</a> -.<a href="#cite_note-partridge-2">[2]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a> script used throughout <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central Europe</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Early_modern_period" title="Early modern period">early modern period</a> used a single slash as a scratch comma and a double slash // as a dash. The double slash developed into the <a href="/wiki/Double_hyphen" title="Double hyphen">double oblique hyphen</a> ⸗ and <a href="/wiki/Double_hyphen" title="Double hyphen">double hyphen</a> ⹀ or ゠ before being usually simplified into <a href="/wiki/Dash" title="Dash">various single dashes</a>. In the 18th century, the mark was generally known in English as the "<a href="#oblique">oblique</a>".<a href="#cite_note-oedobli-3">[3]</a> but particularly the less vertical <a href="#fraction">fraction slash</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> The variant "oblique stroke" was increasingly shortened to "<a href="#stroke">stroke</a>", which became the common British name for the character, although printers and publishing professionals often instead referred to it as an "oblique". In the 19th and early 20th century, it was also widely known as the "<a href="#shilling">shilling mark</a>" or "<a href="#solidus">solidus</a>", from its use as a notation or abbreviation for the <a href="/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling">shilling</a>.<a href="#cite_note-oedshill-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-oedsolid-6">[6]</a> The name "slash" is a recent development, not appearing in <a href="/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary" title="Webster's Dictionary">Webster's Dictionary</a> until the Third Edition (1961)<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[a]</a> but has gained wide currency through its use in <a href="#Computing">computing</a>, a context where it is sometimes used in British English in preference to "stroke". Clarifying terms such as "forward slash" have been coined owing to widespread use of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>'s <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">DOS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_(OS)" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows (OS)">Windows</a> <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a>, which use the <a href="/wiki/Backslash" title="Backslash">backslash</a> extensively.<a href="#cite_note-jed-10">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-turton-11">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Usage">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Disjunction_and_conjunction">Disjunction and conjunction</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Disjunction and conjunction">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Connecting_alternatives">Connecting alternatives</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Connecting alternatives">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages_with_grammatical_gender" title="Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender">Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender</a></div> The slash is commonly used in many languages as a shorter substitute for the <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_(grammar)#Coordinating_conjunctions" title="Conjunction (grammar)">conjunction</a> "or", typically with the sense of <a href="/wiki/Exclusive_or" title="Exclusive or">exclusive or</a> (e.g., Y/N permits yes or no but not both).<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a> Its use in this sense is somewhat informal,<a href="#cite_note-cms104-13">[12]</a> although it is used in <a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philology</a> to note variants (e.g., virgula/uirgula) and <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">etymologies</a> (e.g., <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">F.</a> virgule/<a href="/wiki/Late_Latin" title="Late Latin">LL</a>. virgula/<a href="/wiki/Classical_Latin" title="Classical Latin">L.</a> virga/<a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Indo-European">PIE</a>. *wirgā).<a href="#cite_note-partridge-2">[2]</a> Such slashes may be used to avoid taking a position in <a href="/wiki/Ethnonym" title="Ethnonym">naming disputes</a>. One example is the <a href="/wiki/Syriac_naming_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="Syriac naming dispute">Syriac naming dispute</a>, which prompted the <a href="/wiki/US_census" class="mw-redirect" title="US census">US</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swedish_census" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish census">Swedish censuses</a> to use the respective official designations "<a href="/wiki/Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac" class="mw-redirect" title="Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac">Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Assyrier/Syrianer" class="mw-redirect" title="Assyrier/Syrianer">Assyrier/Syrianer</a>" for the ethnic group. In particular, since the late 20th century, the slash is used to permit more <a href="/wiki/Gender-neutral_language" title="Gender-neutral language">gender-neutral language</a> in place of the traditional <a href="/wiki/He_(pronoun)" title="He (pronoun)">masculine</a> or <a href="/wiki/Singular_they" title="Singular they">plural</a> gender neutrals. In the case of <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, this is usually restricted to <a href="/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns" class="mw-redirect" title="Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns">degendered pronouns</a> such as "he/she" or "s/he". Most other <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European languages</a> include more far-reaching use of <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">grammatical gender</a>. In these, the separate gendered <a href="/wiki/Desinence" class="mw-redirect" title="Desinence">desinences</a> (grammatical suffices) of the words may be given divided by slashes or set off with <a href="/wiki/Parentheses" class="mw-redirect" title="Parentheses">parentheses</a>. For example, in <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, hijo is a son and a hija is a daughter; some proponents of gender-neutral language advocate the use of hijo/a or hijo(a) when writing for a general audience or addressing a listener of unknown gender.<a href="#cite_note-14">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a> Less commonly, <a href="/wiki/At_sign#Gender_neutrality_in_Spanish" title="At sign">at sign</a> ⟨@⟩ is used instead: hij@. Similarly, in <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> and some Scandinavian and Baltic languages, Sekretär refers to any secretary and Sekretärin to an explicitly female secretary; some advocates of gender neutrality support forms such as Sekretär/-in for general use. This does not always work smoothly, however: problems arise in the case of words like Arzt ('doctor') where the explicitly female form Ärztin is <a href="/wiki/Umlaut_(diacritic)" title="Umlaut (diacritic)">umlauted</a> and words like Chinese ('Chinese person') where the explicitly female form Chinesin loses the terminal -e. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Connecting_non-contrasting_items">Connecting non-contrasting items</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Connecting non-contrasting items">edit</a>]</div> The slash is also used as a shorter substitute for the conjunction "and" or <a href="/wiki/Inclusive_or" class="mw-redirect" title="Inclusive or">inclusive or</a> (i.e., A or B or both),<a href="#cite_note-cms104-13">[12]</a> typically in situations where it fills the role of a hyphen or <a href="/wiki/En_dash" class="mw-redirect" title="En dash">en dash</a>. For example, the "Hemingway/Faulkner generation" might be used to discuss the era of the <a href="/wiki/Lost_Generation" title="Lost Generation">Lost Generation</a> inclusive of the people around and affected by both <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Hemingway</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">Faulkner</a>. This use is sometimes proscribed, as by <a href="/wiki/New_Hart%27s_Rules" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hart's Rules">New Hart's Rules</a>, the style guide for the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>.<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Presenting_routes">Presenting routes</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Presenting routes">edit</a>]</div> The slash, as a form of inclusive or, is also used to punctuate the stages of a route (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a>/<a href="/wiki/Nanjing" title="Nanjing">Nanjing</a>/<a href="/wiki/Wuhan" title="Wuhan">Wuhan</a>/<a href="/wiki/Chongqing" title="Chongqing">Chongqing</a> as stops on a tour of the <a href="/wiki/Yangtze_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Yangtze River">Yangtze</a>).<a href="#cite_note-partridge-2">[2]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Introducing_topic_shifts">Introducing topic shifts</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Introducing topic shifts">edit</a>]</div> The word slash is also developing as a way to introduce topic shifts or follow-up statements. Slash can introduce a follow-up statement, such as, "I really love that hot dog place on Liberty Street. Slash can we go there tomorrow?" It can also indicate a shift to an unrelated topic, as in "JUST SAW ALEX! Slash I just chubbed on oatmeal raisin cookies at north quad and i miss you." The new usage of "slash" appears most frequently in spoken conversation, though it can also appear in writing.<a href="#cite_note-17">[16]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="In_speech">In speech</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: In speech">edit</a>]</div> Sometimes the word slash is used in speech as a <a href="/wiki/Conjunction_(grammar)" title="Conjunction (grammar)">conjunction</a> to represent the written role of the character (as if a written slash were being read aloud from text), e.g. "bee slash mosquito protection" for a beekeeper's net hood,<a href="#cite_note-18">[17]</a> and "There's a little bit of nectar slash honey over here, but really it's not a lot." (said by a beekeeper examining in a beehive),<a href="#cite_note-19">[18]</a> and "<a href="/wiki/Gastornis" title="Gastornis">Gastornis</a> slash <a href="/wiki/Diatryma" class="mw-redirect" title="Diatryma">Diatryma</a>" for two supposed genera of prehistoric birds which are now thought to be one genus.<a href="#cite_note-20">[19]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mathematics">Mathematics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Mathematics">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fractions">Fractions</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Fractions">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts#Fraction_slash" title="Unicode subscripts and superscripts">Unicode subscripts and superscripts § Fraction slash</a></div> The fraction slash ⟨ ⁄⟩ is used between two numbers to indicate a <a href="/wiki/Fraction" title="Fraction">fraction</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ratio" title="Ratio">ratio</a>. Such formatting developed as a way to write the horizontal <a href="/wiki/Fraction_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Fraction bar">fraction bar</a> on a single line of text. It is first attested in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of Mexico">Mexico</a> in the 18th century.<a href="#cite_note-jeff-21">[20]</a> This notation is known as an online, solidus,<a href="#cite_note-Eckersley_et_al-22">[21]</a> or shilling fraction.<a href="#cite_note-Eckersley_et_al-22">[21]</a> Nowadays fractions, unlike inline division, are often given using smaller numbers, <a href="/wiki/Superscript" class="mw-redirect" title="Superscript">superscript</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Subscript" class="mw-redirect" title="Subscript">subscript</a> (e.g., 23⁄43). This notation is responsible for the current form of the <a href="/wiki/Percent_sign" title="Percent sign">percent</a> ⟨%⟩, <a href="/wiki/Permille" class="mw-redirect" title="Permille">permille</a> ⟨‰⟩, and <a href="/wiki/Permyriad" class="mw-redirect" title="Permyriad">permyriad</a> ⟨‱⟩ signs, developed from the horizontal form <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214402035">.mw-parser-output .sfrac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .sfrac.tion,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .tion{display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.5em;font-size:85%;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .num{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0.0em 0.1em;border-bottom:1px solid}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .den{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0.1em 0.1em}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>⁠0/0⁠ which represented an early modern corruption of an Italian abbreviation of per cento.<a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a> Many fonts draw the fraction slash (and the division slash) less vertical than the slash. The separate encoding is also intended to permit automatic formatting of the preceding and succeeding digits by glyph substitution with numerator and denominator glyphs (e.g., display of "1, fraction slash, 2" as "½"),<a href="#cite_note-24">[23]</a> though this is not yet supported in many environments or fonts. Because of this lack of support, some authors still use <a href="/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts#Uses" title="Unicode subscripts and superscripts">Unicode subscripts and superscripts</a> to compose fractions, and many fonts design these characters for this purpose. In addition, all of the multiples less than 1 of 1⁄n for 2 ≤ n ≤ 6 and n = 8 (e.g. 2⁄3 and 5⁄8), as well as 1⁄7, 1⁄9, and 1⁄10, are in the Unicode <a href="/wiki/Number_Forms" title="Number Forms">Number Forms</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latin-1_Supplement_(Unicode_block)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin-1 Supplement (Unicode block)">Latin-1 Supplement</a> block as <a href="/wiki/Precomposed_character" title="Precomposed character">precomposed characters</a>.<a href="#cite_note-25">[24]</a> This notation can also be used when the concept of fractions is extended from numbers to arbitrary rings by the method of <a href="/wiki/Localization_of_a_ring" class="mw-redirect" title="Localization of a ring">localization of a ring</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Division">Division</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Division">edit</a>]</div> The division slash ⟨ ∕⟩, equivalent to the <a href="/wiki/Division_sign" title="Division sign">division sign</a> ⟨ ÷⟩, may be used between two numbers to indicate <a href="/wiki/Division_(math)" class="mw-redirect" title="Division (math)">division</a>. For example, 23 ÷ 43 can also be written as 23 ∕ 43. This use developed from the <a href="#Fractions">fraction slash</a> in the late 18th or early 19th century.<a href="#cite_note-jeff-21">[20]</a> The formatting was advocated by <a href="/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan" title="Augustus De Morgan">De Morgan</a> in the mid-19th century.<a href="#cite_note-26">[25]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">full citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Quotient_of_set">Quotient of set</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Quotient of set">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Set_(mathematics)" title="Set (mathematics)">Set (mathematics)</a></div> A quotient of a set is informally a new set obtained by identifying some elements of the original set. This is denoted as a fraction <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle S/R}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>S</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mi>R</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle S/R}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/2223297d422eaf46aeca7b62cb8479918422b29b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:4.426ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle S/R}"> (sometimes even as a built fraction), where the numerator <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle S}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>S</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle S}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/4611d85173cd3b508e67077d4a1252c9c05abca2" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.499ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle S}"> is the original set (often equipped with some algebraic structure). What is appropriate as denominator depends on the context. In the most general case, the denominator is an <a href="/wiki/Equivalence_relation" title="Equivalence relation">equivalence relation</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sim }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>∼</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \sim }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/afcc42adfcfdc24d5c4c474869e5d8eaa78d1173" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: 0.307ex; margin-bottom: -0.478ex; width:1.808ex; height:1.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \sim }"> on the original set <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle S}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>S</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle S}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/4611d85173cd3b508e67077d4a1252c9c05abca2" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.499ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle S}">, and elements are to be identified in the quotient <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle S/{\sim }}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>S</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∼</mo> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle S/{\sim }}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/da3d666eebe304481e0ad243dcdf61fa68751063" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:4.47ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle S/{\sim }}"> if they are equivalent according to <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sim }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>∼</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \sim }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/afcc42adfcfdc24d5c4c474869e5d8eaa78d1173" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: 0.307ex; margin-bottom: -0.478ex; width:1.808ex; height:1.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \sim }">; this is technically achieved by making <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle S/{\sim }}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>S</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>∼</mo> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle S/{\sim }}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/da3d666eebe304481e0ad243dcdf61fa68751063" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:4.47ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle S/{\sim }}"> the set of all <a href="/wiki/Equivalence_class" title="Equivalence class">equivalence classes</a> of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sim }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>∼</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \sim }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/afcc42adfcfdc24d5c4c474869e5d8eaa78d1173" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: 0.307ex; margin-bottom: -0.478ex; width:1.808ex; height:1.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \sim }">. In <a href="/wiki/Group_theory" title="Group theory">group theory</a>, the slash is used to mark <a href="/wiki/Quotient_group" title="Quotient group">quotient groups</a>. The general form is <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle G/N}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>G</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mi>N</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle G/N}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/ab52bff253c690c4e0d473400ab8c365ea019298" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:5.053ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle G/N}">, where <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle G}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>G</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle G}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f5f3c8921a3b352de45446a6789b104458c9f90b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.827ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle G}"> is the original group and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle N}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>N</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle N}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f5e3890c981ae85503089652feb48b191b57aae3" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.064ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle N}"> is the normal subgroup; this is read "<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle G}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>G</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle G}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f5f3c8921a3b352de45446a6789b104458c9f90b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.827ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle G}"> mod <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle N}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>N</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle N}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f5e3890c981ae85503089652feb48b191b57aae3" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.064ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle N}">", where "mod" is short for "<a href="/wiki/Modulo_operation" class="mw-redirect" title="Modulo operation">modulo</a>". Formally this is a special case of quotient by an equivalence relation, where <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle g\sim h}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>g</mi> <mo>∼</mo> <mi>h</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle g\sim h}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c8907be3a0d650cab1a9cf751e7727155d73a03d" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:5.553ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle g\sim h}"> iff <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle g=hn}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>g</mi> <mo>=</mo> <mi>h</mi> <mi>n</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle g=hn}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fad68b6b40cc511feadd7dbfaeb75fb94e4949f2" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:6.948ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle g=hn}"> for some <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle n\in N}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>n</mi> <mo>∈</mo> <mi>N</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle n\in N}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/aedc99ee9cd35f9c34b0f743f8c26b34359ca2fe" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:6.299ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle n\in N}">. Since many algebraic structures (<a href="/wiki/Ring_(mathematics)" title="Ring (mathematics)">rings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vector_space" title="Vector space">vector spaces</a>, etc.) in particular are groups, the same style of quotients extend also to these, although the denominator may need to satisfy additional <a href="/wiki/Closure_(mathematics)" title="Closure (mathematics)">closure</a> properties for the quotient to preserve the full algebraic structure of the original (e.g. for the quotient of a ring to be a ring, the denominator must be an <a href="/wiki/Ideal_(ring_theory)" title="Ideal (ring theory)">ideal</a>). When the original set is the set of <a href="/wiki/Integer" title="Integer">integers</a> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/449494a083e0a1fda2b61c62b2f09b6bee4633dc" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.55ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} }">, the denominator may alternatively be just an integer: <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mi>n</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/64813bfce60c9ac335f0c1efa5d03ed7a6550172" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:4.107ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n}">. This is an alternative notation for the set <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{n}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>n</mi> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{n}}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7b729c334a9863c47f0b7e3ad61342c2f0881bdb" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:2.769ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{n}}"> of <a href="/wiki/Modular_arithmetic#Integers_modulo_m" title="Modular arithmetic">integers modulo n</a> (needed because <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{n}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>n</mi> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{n}}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/7b729c334a9863c47f0b7e3ad61342c2f0881bdb" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:2.769ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{n}}"> is also notation for the very different <a href="/wiki/P-adic_number" title="P-adic number">ring of n-adic integers</a>). <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mi>n</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/64813bfce60c9ac335f0c1efa5d03ed7a6550172" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:4.107ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n}"> is an abbreviation of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n\mathbb {Z} }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mi>n</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n\mathbb {Z} }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f2120ebbc85f91df66c6de5446367bf9fd620844" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:5.658ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /n\mathbb {Z} }"> or <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /(n)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>n</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /(n)}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/0639d2973f71226a502767b14c0b7f9f5876c6c2" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:5.917ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} /(n)}">, which both are ways of writing the set in question as a quotient of groups. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Combining_slash">Combining slash</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Combining slash">edit</a>]</div> Slashes may also be used as a <a href="/wiki/Combining_character" title="Combining character">combining character</a> in mathematical formulae. The most important use of this is that combining a slash with a <a href="/wiki/Binary_relation" title="Binary relation">relation</a> negates it, producing e.g. 'not equal' <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \neq }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>≠</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \neq }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/38cc3d8d8c60120bc2f905bae4d5e10d8ad6a3f4" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:1.808ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \neq }"> as negation of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle =}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>=</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle =}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/505a4ceef454c69dffd23792c84b90f488543743" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: 0.307ex; margin-bottom: -0.478ex; width:1.808ex; height:1.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle =}"> or 'not in' <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \notin }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>∉</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \notin }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/33dea9a3a3f311cc734ffd570e8f697ea1560a90" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:1.55ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \notin }"> as negation of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \in }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>∈</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \in }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6fe4d5b0a594c1da89b5e78e7dfbeed90bdcc32f" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.55ex; height:1.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \in }">; these slashed relation symbols are always implicitly defined in terms of the non-slashed base symbol. The graphical form of the negation slash is mostly the same as for a division slash, except in some cases where that would look odd; the negation <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \nmid }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>∤</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \nmid }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/0698c887774735c30f8ae93987bc2f1b6d442962" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; margin-left: -0.045ex; margin-right: -0.042ex; width:0.734ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \nmid }"> of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mid }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>∣</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \mid }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/8f7b2136e276c4aec285a6c40b91180c16432b9b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:0.647ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \mid }"> (divides) and negation <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \nsim }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>≁</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \nsim }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/0bb24e1914cfde8a8abf56fce4f6370532c16e0e" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: 0.072ex; margin-bottom: -0.243ex; width:1.808ex; height:1.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \nsim }"> of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sim }"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mo>∼</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \sim }</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/afcc42adfcfdc24d5c4c474869e5d8eaa78d1173" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: 0.307ex; margin-bottom: -0.478ex; width:1.808ex; height:1.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \sim }"> (various meanings) customarily both have their negations slashes less steep and in particular shorter than the usual one. The <a href="/wiki/Feynman_slash_notation" title="Feynman slash notation">Feynman slash notation</a> is an unrelated use of combining slashes, mostly seen in <a href="/wiki/Quantum_field_theory" title="Quantum field theory">quantum field theory</a>. This kind of combining slash takes a vector base symbol and converts it to a matrix quantity. Technically this notation is a shorthand for contracting the vector with the <a href="/wiki/Gamma_matrix" class="mw-redirect" title="Gamma matrix">Dirac gamma matrices</a>, so <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle A\!\!\!/=\gamma ^{\mu }A_{\mu }}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>A</mi> <mspace width="negativethinmathspace" /> <mspace width="negativethinmathspace" /> <mspace width="negativethinmathspace" /> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mo>=</mo> <msup> <mi>γ</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>μ</mi> </mrow> </msup> <msub> <mi>A</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>μ</mi> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle A\!\!\!/=\gamma ^{\mu }A_{\mu }}</annotation> </semantics> </math><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/d3148c4897693619dd00898e421778e4c1ec5879" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.005ex; width:10.312ex; height:3.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle A\!\!\!/=\gamma ^{\mu }A_{\mu }}">; what one gains is not only a more compact formula, but also not having to allocate a letter as the contracted index. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Computing">Computing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Computing">edit</a>]</div> The slash, sometimes distinguished as "forward slash", is used in <a href="/wiki/Computing" title="Computing">computing</a> in a number of ways, primarily as a separator among levels in a given hierarchy, for example in the path of a filesystem. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="File_paths">File paths</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: File paths">edit</a>]</div> The slash is used as the <a href="/wiki/Path_(computing)" title="Path (computing)">path</a> component separator in many <a href="/wiki/Computer" title="Computer">computer</a> operating systems (e.g., Unix's <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style>pictures/image.png). In <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unix-like" title="Unix-like">Unix-like</a> systems, such as <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, the slash is also used for the <a href="/wiki/Volume_(computing)" title="Volume (computing)">volume</a> <a href="/wiki/Root_directory" title="Root directory">root directory</a> (e.g., the initial slash in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">/usr/john/pictures). Confusion of the slash with the backslash ⟨\⟩ largely arises from the use of the latter as the path component separator in the widely used MS-DOS and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> systems.<a href="#cite_note-jed-10">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-turton-11">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Networking">Networking</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Networking">edit</a>]</div> The slash is used in a similar fashion in internet <a href="/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator" class="mw-redirect" title="Uniform Resource Locator">URLs</a> (e.g., <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)).<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a> Often this portion of such URLs corresponds with files on a Unix <a href="/wiki/Computer_server" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer server">server</a> with the same name, and this is where this convention for <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">internet</a> URLs comes from. The slash in an <a href="/wiki/IP_address" title="IP address">IP address</a> (e.g., <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">192.0.2.0/29) indicates the prefix size in <a href="/wiki/CIDR_notation" class="mw-redirect" title="CIDR notation">CIDR notation</a>. The number of addresses of a <a href="/wiki/Subnetwork" class="mw-redirect" title="Subnetwork">subnet</a> may be calculated as 2address size − prefix size, in which the address size is 128 for <a href="/wiki/IPv6" title="IPv6">IPv6</a> and 32 for <a href="/wiki/IPv4" title="IPv4">IPv4</a>. For example, in IPv4, the prefix size/29 gives: 232–29 = 23 = 8 addresses. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Programming">Programming</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Programming">edit</a>]</div> The slash is used as a <a href="#Division">division operator</a> in most <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a> while <a href="/wiki/APL_(programming_language)" title="APL (programming language)">APL</a> uses it for reduction (<a href="/wiki/Fold_(higher-order_function)" title="Fold (higher-order function)">fold</a>) and compression (<a href="/wiki/Filter_(higher-order_function)" title="Filter (higher-order function)">filter</a>). The double slash is used by <a href="/wiki/Rexx" title="Rexx">Rexx</a> as a <a href="#Mod">modulo operator</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a> (starting in version 2.2) uses a double slash for division which rounds (using <a href="/wiki/Floor_and_ceiling_functions" title="Floor and ceiling functions">floor</a>) to an integer. In <a href="/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)" title="Raku (programming language)">Raku</a> the double slash is used as a "defined-or" alternative to ||. A dot and slash ⟨./⟩ is used in <a href="/wiki/MATLAB" title="MATLAB">MATLAB</a> and <a href="/wiki/GNU_Octave" title="GNU Octave">GNU Octave</a> to indicate an element-by-element division of matrices. <a href="/wiki/Comment_(computer_programming)" title="Comment (computer programming)">Comments</a> that begin with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">/* (a slash and an asterisk) and end with <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">*/ were introduced in <a href="/wiki/PL/I" title="PL/I">PL/I</a> and subsequently adopted by <a href="/wiki/SAS_System" class="mw-redirect" title="SAS System">SAS</a>, <a href="/wiki/C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>, Rexx, <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a>, <a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a>, <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a>, <a href="/wiki/PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets" class="mw-redirect" title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</a>, and <a href="/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)" title="C Sharp (programming language)">C#</a>. A double slash <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">// is also used by <a href="/wiki/C99" title="C99">C99</a>, C++, C#, PHP, Java, <a href="/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)" title="Swift (programming language)">Swift</a>, and JavaScript to start a single line comment. In <a href="/wiki/SGML" class="mw-redirect" title="SGML">SGML</a> and derived languages such as <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> and <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>, a slash is used in closing tags. For example, in HTML, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"> begins a section of bold text and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"> closes it. In XHTML, slashes are also necessary for "self-closing" elements such as the <a href="/wiki/Newline" title="Newline">newline</a> command <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"> where HTML has simply <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"> . In a style originating in the <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> line of operating systems (<a href="/wiki/OS/8" title="OS/8">OS/8</a>, <a href="/wiki/RT-11" title="RT-11">RT-11</a>, <a href="/wiki/TOPS-10" title="TOPS-10">TOPS-10</a>, et cetera), <a href="/wiki/Windows_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows (operating system)">Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a>, some <a href="/wiki/CP/M" title="CP/M">CP/M</a> programs, <a href="/wiki/OpenVMS" title="OpenVMS">OpenVMS</a>, and <a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a> all use the slash to indicate <a href="/wiki/Command-line_option" class="mw-redirect" title="Command-line option">command-line options</a>. For example, the command <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">dir/w is understood as using the command <a href="/wiki/Dir_(command)" title="Dir (command)">dir</a> ("directory") with the "wide" option. No space is required between the command and the switch; this was the reason for the choice to use backslashes as the path separator since one would otherwise be unable to run a program in a different directory. Slashes are used as the standard delimiters for <a href="/wiki/Regular_expression" title="Regular expression">regular expressions</a>, although other characters can be used instead. <a href="/wiki/IBM_JCL" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM JCL">IBM JCL</a> uses a double slash to start each line in a batch job stream except for /* and /&. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Programs">Programs</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Programs">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</a> and many in-game chat clients use the slash to mark commands, such as joining and leaving a chat room or sending private messages. For example, in IRC, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">/join #services is a command to join the <a href="/wiki/IRC_channels" class="mw-redirect" title="IRC channels">channel</a> "services" and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">/me is a command to format the following message as though it were an action instead of a spoken message. In <a href="/wiki/Minecraft" title="Minecraft">Minecraft</a>'s chat function, the slash is used for executing console and plugin commands. In <a href="/wiki/Second_Life" title="Second Life">Second Life</a>'s chat function, the slash is used to select the "communications channel", allowing users to direct commands to virtual objects "listening" on different channels. For example, if a virtual house's lights were set to use channel 42, the command "/42 on" would turn them on. In <a href="/wiki/Discord_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Discord (software)">Discord</a>, slash commands are used to send special messages and execute commands, like sending a <a href="/wiki/Shrug" title="Shrug">shrug emoji (¯\_(ツ)_/¯)</a> or a table flip emoji ((╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻), or changing one's nickname using "/nick". Slash commands can also be used to use Discord bots. The <a href="/wiki/Gedcom" class="mw-redirect" title="Gedcom">Gedcom</a> standard for exchanging computerized genealogical data uses slashes to delimit surnames; an example would be Bill /Smith/ Jr. Slashes around surnames are also used in <a href="/wiki/Personal_Ancestral_File" title="Personal Ancestral File">Personal Ancestral File</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electronics">Electronics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Electronics">edit</a>]</div> A leading slash is one of several common conventions for indicating an <a href="/wiki/Active-low#Active_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Active-low">active-low</a> digital signal, which performs the named function when at a low voltage level.<a href="#cite_note-27">[26]</a> For example, <a href="/wiki/Dynamic_random-access_memory" title="Dynamic random-access memory">dynamic random-access memory</a> has active-low Chip Select, Row Address Strobe and Column Address Strobe signals, commonly written /CS, /RAS, and /CAS.<a href="#cite_note-28">[27]</a> This extends to signals which select between two options, such as "R/W", which indicates that the function is "read" when high and "write" when low. (Sometimes written as R/W for greater clarity.<a href="#cite_note-29">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Currency">Currency</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Currency">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling">Shilling</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:038_35_Kisoro,_2000_constructed_under_swTws_Project_(7928190604).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/038_35_Kisoro%2C_2000_constructed_under_swTws_Project_%287928190604%29.jpg/220px-038_35_Kisoro%2C_2000_constructed_under_swTws_Project_%287928190604%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/038_35_Kisoro%2C_2000_constructed_under_swTws_Project_%287928190604%29.jpg/330px-038_35_Kisoro%2C_2000_constructed_under_swTws_Project_%287928190604%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/038_35_Kisoro%2C_2000_constructed_under_swTws_Project_%287928190604%29.jpg/440px-038_35_Kisoro%2C_2000_constructed_under_swTws_Project_%287928190604%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Sign in <a href="/wiki/Kisoro" title="Kisoro">Kisoro</a> with prices in <a href="/wiki/Ugandan_shilling" title="Ugandan shilling">Ugandan shillings</a>; note the use of the '/=' notation.</figcaption></figure> The slash (as the "shilling mark" or "solidus")<a href="#cite_note-Fowler_solidus-30">[29]</a> was an abbreviation for the <a href="/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling">shilling</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/Coin" title="Coin">coin</a> of the United Kingdom and <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">its former colonies</a>. Before the <a href="/wiki/Decimal_Day" title="Decimal Day">decimalisation of currency in Britain</a>, its currency abbreviations (collectively <a href="/wiki/%C2%A3sd" title="£sd">£sd</a>) represented their <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> names, derived from a <a href="/wiki/French_livre" title="French livre">medieval French modification</a> of the late <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measurement#Mass_and_coins" title="Ancient Roman units of measurement">Roman libra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solidus_(coin)" title="Solidus (coin)">solidus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Denarius" title="Denarius">denarius</a>.<a href="#cite_note-31">[30]</a> Thus, one <a href="/wiki/Penny" title="Penny">penny</a> less than two <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">pounds</a> was written £1 19s 11d or £1 19ſ 11d. During the period when <a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">English orthography</a> included the <a href="/wiki/Long_s" title="Long s">long s</a>, ſ or ſ, (abbreviating shilling) the ſ came to be written as a single slash.<a href="#cite_note-32">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[32]</a> The d. might be omitted, and "2ſ6" ("two shillings and sixpence") became simplified as 2/6.<a href="#cite_note-Fowler_solidus-30">[29]</a> Amounts in full pounds, shillings and pence could be written in many different ways, for example: £1 9s 6d, £1.9.6, £1-9-6, and even £1/9/6d (with a slash used also to separate pounds and shillings).<a href="#cite_note-34">[33]</a> The same style was also used under the <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British Raj</a> and early independent India for the predecimalization <a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee" title="Indian rupee">rupee</a>/<a href="/wiki/Indian_anna" title="Indian anna">anna</a>/<a href="/wiki/Indian_pie" title="Indian pie">pie</a> system.<a href="#cite_note-35">[34]</a> In five East African countries (<a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>, and the de facto country of <a href="/wiki/Somaliland" title="Somaliland">Somaliland</a>), where the national currencies are denominated in shillings, the <a href="/wiki/Decimal_separator" title="Decimal separator">decimal separator</a> is a slash mark (e.g., 2/50). Where the minor unit is zero, an <a href="/wiki/Equals_sign" title="Equals sign">equals sign</a> is used (e.g., 5/=). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dates">Dates</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Dates">edit</a>]</div> Slashes are a common <a href="/wiki/Calendar_date" title="Calendar date">calendar date</a> separator<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a> used <a href="/wiki/Date_format_by_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Date format by country">across many countries</a> and by some standards such as the <a href="/wiki/Common_Log_Format" title="Common Log Format">Common Log Format</a> used by web servers. Depending on context, it may be in the form Day/Month/Year, Month/Day/Year, or Year/Month/Day. If only two elements are present, they typically denote a day and month in some order. For example, <a href="/wiki/9/11" class="mw-redirect" title="9/11">9/11</a> is a common American way of writing the date 11 September; Britons write this as 11/9. Owing to the ambiguity across cultures, the practice of using only two elements to denote a date is sometimes proscribed.<a href="#cite_note-36">[35]</a> Because of the world's many varying <a href="/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Date and time notation by country">conventional date and time formats</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISO_8601" title="ISO 8601">ISO 8601</a> advocates the use of a Year-Month-Day system separated by hyphens (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day" title="Victory in Europe Day">Victory in Europe Day</a> occurred on 1945-05-08). In the ISO 8601 system, slashes represent date ranges: "1939/1945" represents what is more commonly written in <a href="/wiki/Anglophone" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglophone">Anglophone</a> countries as "1939–1945". The autumn term of a northern-hemisphere school year might be marked "2010-09-01/12-22". In English, a range marked by a slash often has a separate meaning from one marked by a dash or hyphen.<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a> "24/25 December" would mark the time shared by both days (i.e., the night from <a href="/wiki/Christmas_Eve" title="Christmas Eve">Christmas Eve</a> to <a href="/wiki/Christmas_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Christmas Day">Christmas morning</a>) rather than the time made up by both days together, which would be written "24–25 December". Similarly, a historical reference to "1066/67" might imply an event occurred during the winter of late 1066 and early 1067,<a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a> whereas a reference to 1066–67 would cover the entirety of both years. The usage was particularly common in British English during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, where such slash dates were used for <a href="/wiki/Night-bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="Night-bombing">night-bombing</a> <a href="/wiki/Strategic_bombing" title="Strategic bombing">air raids</a>. It is also used by some police forces in the United States. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Numbering">Numbering</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Numbering">edit</a>]</div> The slash is used in numbering to note totals. For example, "page 17/35" indicates that the relevant passage is on the 17th page of a 35-page document. Similarly, the marking "#333/500" on a product indicates it is the 333rd out of 500 identical products or out of a batch of 500 such products. For scores on schoolwork, in games, and so on, "85/100" indicates 85 points were attained out of a possible 100. Slashes are also sometimes used to mark ranges in numbers that already include hyphens or dashes. One example is the <a href="#Dating">ISO treatment of dating</a>. Another is the <a href="/wiki/US_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="US Air Force">US Air Force</a>'s treatment of aircraft serial numbers, which are normally written to note the fiscal year and aircraft number. For example, "85-1000" notes the thousandth aircraft ordered in fiscal year 1985. To indicate the next fifty subsequent aircraft, a slash is used in place of a hyphen or dash: "85-1001/1050". <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Linguistic_transcription">Linguistic transcription</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Linguistic transcription">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet § Brackets and transcription delimiters</a></div> A pair of slashes (as "<a href="#slants">slants</a>") are used in the <a href="/wiki/Transcription_(linguistics)" title="Transcription (linguistics)">transcription</a> of <a href="/wiki/Speech" title="Speech">speech</a> to enclose <a href="/wiki/Pronunciation" title="Pronunciation">pronunciations</a> (i.e., <a href="/wiki/Phonetic_transcription" title="Phonetic transcription">phonetic transcriptions</a>). For example, the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a> transcription of the English pronunciation of "solidus" is written /ˈsɒlɪdəs/.<a href="#cite_note-oedsolid-6">[6]</a> Properly, slashes mark <a href="/wiki/Phonemic_transcription" class="mw-redirect" title="Phonemic transcription">broad or phonemic transcriptions</a>, whereas narrow, <a href="/wiki/Allophone" title="Allophone">allophonic</a> transcriptions are enclosed by <a href="/wiki/Square_bracket" class="mw-redirect" title="Square bracket">square brackets</a>. For example, the word little may be broadly rendered as /ˈlɪtəl/ but a careful transcription of the <a href="/wiki/Dark_L" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark L">velarization of the second L</a> would be written [ˈlɪɾɫ̩]. In <a href="/wiki/Sociolinguistics" title="Sociolinguistics">sociolinguistics</a>, a double or triple slash may also be used in the transcription of a <a href="/wiki/Sociolinguistics#Sociolinguistic_interview" title="Sociolinguistics">traditional sociolinguistic interview</a> or in other type of linguistic elicitation to represent simultaneous speech, interruptions, and certain types of <a href="/wiki/Speech_disfluencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Speech disfluencies">speech disfluencies</a>. Single and double slashes are often used as typographic substitutes for the <a href="/wiki/Click_letter" title="Click letter">click letters</a> <a href="/wiki/%C7%80" class="mw-redirect" title="ǀ">ǀ</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C7%81" class="mw-redirect" title="ǁ">ǁ</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Diaphoneme" title="Diaphoneme">diaphonemic</a> transcription may be marked in several ways, e.g. with a pair of slash marks (⫽◌⫽). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Poetry">edit</a>]</div> The slash is used in various <a href="/wiki/Scansion" title="Scansion">scansion</a> notations for representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse, typically to indicate a stressed syllable.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Line_breaks">Line breaks</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Line breaks">edit</a>]</div> The slash (as a "virgule") offset by spaces to either side is used to mark <a href="/wiki/Line_(poetry)" title="Line (poetry)">line breaks</a> when transcribing text from a multi-line format into a single-line one.<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[37]</a> It is particularly common in quoting <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyrics" title="Lyrics">song lyrics</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Drama" title="Drama">dramatic</a> scripts, formats where omitting the line breaks risks losing meaningful context. For example, here is a part of <a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Soliloquy" title="Soliloquy">soliloquy</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <a href="/wiki/To_be,_or_not_to_be" title="To be, or not to be">To be, or not to be</a>, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them... </div><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a>, Act II, Scene ii<a href="#cite_note-39">[38]</a></cite></div></blockquote>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">full citation needed</a>] If someone wanted to quote the above soliloquy in a prose paragraph, it is standard to mark the line breaks as follows: "To be, or not to be, that is the question: / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous <a href="/wiki/Fortune_(goddess)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fortune (goddess)">Fortune</a>, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them..." Less often, virgules are used in marking <a href="/wiki/Paragraph" title="Paragraph">paragraph</a> breaks when quoting a <a href="/wiki/Prose" title="Prose">prose</a> passage. Some style guides, such as <a href="/wiki/New_Hart%27s_Rules" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hart's Rules">New Hart's</a>, prefer to use a pipe | in place of the slash to mark these line and paragraph breaks.<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a> The virgule may be thinner than a standard slash when typeset. In computing contexts, it may be necessary to use a <a href="/wiki/Non-breaking_space" title="Non-breaking space">non-breaking space</a> before the virgule to prevent it from being <a href="/wiki/Widows_and_orphans" title="Widows and orphans">widowed</a> on the next line. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abbreviation">Abbreviation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Abbreviation">edit</a>]</div> The slash has become standard in several abbreviations. Generally, it is used to mark two-letter <a href="/wiki/Initialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Initialism">initialisms</a> such as A/C (short for "air conditioner"), w/o ("without"), b/w ("black and white" or, less often, "between"), w/e ("whatever" or, less often, "weekend" or "week ending"), i/o ("<a href="/wiki/Input/output" title="Input/output">input/output</a>"), r/w ("read/write"), and n/a ("not applicable"). Other initialisms employing the slash include w/ ("with") and w/r/t ("with regard to"). Such slashed abbreviations are somewhat more common in British English and were more common around the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> (as with "S/E" to mean "single-engined"). The abbreviation 24/7 (denoting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week) describes a business that is always open or unceasing activity.<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a> The slash in <a href="/wiki/Derived_unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Derived unit">derived units</a> such as m/s (meters per second) is not an abbreviation slash, but a straight division. It is however in that position read as 'per' rather than e.g. 'over', which can be seen as analogous to units whose symbols are pure abbreviations such as mph (miles per hour), although in abbreviations 'per' is 'p' or dropped entirely (psi, pounds per square inch) rather than a slash. In the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of the United States">US government</a>, the names of offices within various departments are abbreviated using slashes, starting with the larger office and following with its subdivisions. For example, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">Federal Aviation Administration</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Commercial_Space_Transportation" title="Office of Commercial Space Transportation">Office of Commercial Space Transportation</a> is formally abbreviated FAA/AST. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proofreading">Proofreading</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Proofreading">edit</a>]</div> The slash or vertical bar (as a "<a href="#separatrix">separatrix</a>") is used in <a href="/wiki/Proofreading" title="Proofreading">proofreading</a> to mark the end of <a href="/wiki/Marginalia" title="Marginalia">margin notes</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[b]</a> or to separate margin notes from one another. The slash is also sometimes used in various proofreading <a href="#Abbreviation">initialisms</a>, such as l/c and u/c for changes to <a href="/wiki/Lower_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower case">lower</a> and <a href="/wiki/Upper_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Upper case">upper case</a>, respectively. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Typist">Typist</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Typist">edit</a>]</div> In formal business correspondence, when a letter is typed by someone other than the person responsible for its contents, it is standard to add a suffix with the initials of the author (in upper-case), and typist (in lower-case) after the signature block, separated by a slash. For example, a letter typed by D.E. at the direction of A.B.C. would include the line "ABC/de".<a href="#cite_note-42">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</div> The slash is used in <a href="/wiki/Fan_fiction" title="Fan fiction">fan fiction</a> to mark the <a href="/wiki/Sexual_attraction" title="Sexual attraction">romantic pairing</a> a piece will focus upon (e.g., a K/S denoted a <a href="/wiki/Star_Trek" title="Star Trek">Star Trek</a> story would focus on a sexual relationship between <a href="/wiki/James_T._Kirk" title="James T. Kirk">Kirk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spock" title="Spock">Spock</a>), a usage which developed in the 1970s from the earlier friendship pairings marked by <a href="/wiki/Ampersand" title="Ampersand">ampersands</a> (e.g., K&S). The genre as a whole is now known as <a href="/wiki/Slash_fiction" title="Slash fiction">slash fiction</a>. Because it is more generally associated with <a href="/wiki/Male_homosexuality" class="mw-redirect" title="Male homosexuality">homosexual male</a> relationships, lesbian slash fiction is sometimes distinguished as <a href="/wiki/Femslash" title="Femslash">femslash</a>. In situations where other pairings occur, the genres may be distinguished as m/m, f/f, and so on. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Libraries">Libraries</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Libraries">edit</a>]</div> The slash is used under the <a href="/wiki/AACR2" class="mw-redirect" title="AACR2">Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules</a> to separate the title of a work from its statement of responsibility (i.e., the listing of its author, director, etc.). Like a <a href="#Line_breaks">line break</a>, this slash is surrounded by a single space on either side. For example: <ul><li>Gone with the Wind / by Margaret Mitchell.</li> <li>Star Trek II. The Wrath of Khan [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures.</li></ul> The format is used in both <a href="/wiki/Card_catalog" class="mw-redirect" title="Card catalog">card catalogs</a> and online records. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Addresses">Addresses</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Addresses">edit</a>]</div> The slash is sometimes used as an abbreviation for building numbers. For example, in some contexts,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)">where?</a>] 8/A Evergreen Gardens specifies Apartment 8 in Building A of the residential complex Evergreen Gardens. In the United States, however, such an address refers to the first division of Apartment 8 and is simply a variant of Apartment 8A or 8-A. Similarly in the United Kingdom, an address such as 12/2 Anywhere Road means flat (or apartment) 2 in the building numbered 12 on Anywhere Road. The slash is also used in the United States in the postal abbreviation for "care of." For example, Judy Smith c/o Bob Smith could be used when Bob Smith is receiving mail on Judy's behalf. Typically, this would be used in a situation where someone is either out of town, in an institution or hotel, or temporarily staying at another's address. In Spanish address writings, "c/" is used as the abbreviation of "calle" (or "carrer" in Catalan) meaning "street". <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Music">edit</a>]</div> Slashes are used in <a href="/wiki/Musical_notation" title="Musical notation">musical notation</a> as an alternative to writing out specific <a href="/wiki/Musical_note" title="Musical note">notes</a> where it is easier to read than traditional notation or where the player can <a href="/wiki/Improvisation" title="Improvisation">improvise</a>. They are commonly used to indicate <a href="/wiki/Chord_(music)" title="Chord (music)">chords</a> either in place of or in combination with traditional notation and for <a href="/wiki/Drummer" title="Drummer">drummers</a> as an indication to continue with the previously indicated style. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports">Sports</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Sports">edit</a>]</div> A slash is used to mark a <a href="/wiki/Spare_(bowling)" title="Spare (bowling)">spare</a> (knocking down all ten pins in two throws) when scoring <a href="/wiki/Ten-pin_bowling" title="Ten-pin bowling">ten-pin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Duckpin_bowling" title="Duckpin bowling">duckpin bowling</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Text_messaging">Text messaging</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Text messaging">edit</a>]</div> In online messaging, a slash might be used to imitate the formatting of a chat command (e.g., writing "/fliptable" as though there were such a command) or the closing tags of languages such as HTML (e.g., writing "/endrant" to end a diatribe or "/s" to mark the preceding text as <a href="/wiki/Sarcasm" title="Sarcasm">sarcastic</a>). A pair of slashes is sometimes used as a way to mark <a href="/wiki/Italics" class="mw-redirect" title="Italics">italic text</a>, where no special formatting is available (e.g., /italics/).[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Before_an_e-signature">Before an e-signature</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Before an e-signature">edit</a>]</div> In legal writing, especially in a pleading, attorneys often sign their name with an "s" that is either enclosed by two slashes or followed by a single slash and preceding the attorney's name.<a href="#cite_note-44">[42]</a> An example would be the following: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">/s/ Bob Smith<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> Attorney for Plaintiff</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_a_letter">As a letter</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: As a letter">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Iraqw_language" title="Iraqw language">Iraqw language</a> of Tanzania uses the slash as a letter, representing the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_pharyngeal_fricative" title="Voiced pharyngeal fricative">voiced pharyngeal fricative</a>, as in <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki//ameeni" class="extiw" title="wikt:/ameeni">/ameeni</a>, "woman".<a href="#cite_note-45">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spacing">Spacing</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Spacing">edit</a>]</div> There are usually no spaces either before or after a slash. According to <a href="/wiki/New_Hart%27s_Rules:_The_Oxford_Style_Guide" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hart's Rules: The Oxford Style Guide">New Hart's Rules: The Oxford Style Guide</a>, a slash is usually written without spacing on either side when it connects single words, letters or symbols.<a href="#cite_note-solidhart-12">[11]</a> Exceptions are in <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Poetry">representing the start of a new line when quoting verse</a>, or a new paragraph when quoting prose. <a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style">The Chicago Manual of Style</a> also allows spaces when either of the separated items is a compound that itself includes a space: "Our New Zealand / Western Australia trip".<a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a> (Compare <a href="/wiki/Dash#Attributive_compounds" title="Dash">use of an en dash used to separate such compounds</a>.) The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing prescribes: "No space before or after an oblique when used between individual words, letters or symbols; one space before and after the oblique when used between longer groups which contain internal spacing", giving the examples "n/a" and "Language and Society / Langue et société".<a href="#cite_note-47">[45]</a> According to The Chicago Manual of Style, when typesetting a URL or computer path, line breaks should occur before a slash but not in the text between two slashes.<a href="#cite_note-48">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Encoding">Encoding</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Encoding">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Big_solidus_in_folder_name_compared_with_slash_in_text.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Big_solidus_in_folder_name_compared_with_slash_in_text.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="58" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="111" data-file-height="58" /></a><figcaption>Though the slash is a <a href="/wiki/Reserved_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Reserved character">reserved character</a> prohibited in Windows file and folder names, the big solidus is permitted (first box above). In this context, it is very similar to the slash (second box).</figcaption></figure>As a very common character, the slash (as "slant") was originally encoded in <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> with the decimal code 47 or <a href="/wiki/Hexadecimal" title="Hexadecimal">0x</a>2F.<a href="#cite_note-rfc20-49">[47]</a> The same value was used in <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>, which calls it "solidus" and also adds some more characters: <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><a href="/wiki/Basic_Latin_(Unicode_block)" title="Basic Latin (Unicode block)">U+</a>002F / SOLIDUS</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><a href="/wiki/Combining_Diacritical_Marks" title="Combining Diacritical Marks">U+</a>0337 ̷ COMBINING SHORT SOLIDUS OVERLAY (for <a href="/wiki/Strikethrough" title="Strikethrough">strikethrough</a>)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><a href="/wiki/Combining_Diacritical_Marks" title="Combining Diacritical Marks">U+</a>0338 ̸ COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY (for <a href="/wiki/Strikethrough" title="Strikethrough">strikethrough</a>)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><a href="/wiki/General_Punctuation" title="General Punctuation">U+</a>2044 ⁄ FRACTION SLASH</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Operators" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathematical Operators">U+</a>2215 ∕ DIVISION SLASH</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><a href="/wiki/Box_Drawing" title="Box Drawing">U+</a>2571 ╱ BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+29F8 ⧸ BIG SOLIDUS</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+FF0F ／ FULLWIDTH SOLIDUS (<a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">fullwidth</a> version of solidus)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+1F67C 🙼 VERY HEAVY SOLIDUS</li></ul> In XML and HTML, the slash can also be represented with the <a href="/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references#Character_reference_overview" title="List of XML and HTML character entity references">character entity</a> <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&sol;</code>  or the <a href="/wiki/Numeric_character_reference" title="Numeric character reference">numeric character reference</a> <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&#47;</code>  or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&#x2F;</code> .<a href="#cite_note-50">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alternative_names">Alternative names</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Alternative names">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Used for </th></tr> <tr> <td>diagonal</td> <td>An uncommon name for the slash in all its uses,<a href="#cite_note-oedobli-3">[3]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>division slash</td> <td>This is the Unicode Consortium's formal name for the variant of the slash used to mark <a href="#division">division</a>.<a href="#cite_note-uni8-51">[49]</a> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+2215 ∕ DIVISION SLASH) </td></tr> <tr> <td>forward slash</td> <td>A <a href="/wiki/Retronym" title="Retronym">retronym</a> used to distinguish slash from a backslash following the popularization of MS-DOS and other Microsoft operating systems, which use the backslash for paths in its file system.<a href="#cite_note-jed-10">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-turton-11">[10]</a> Less often forward stroke (UK), foreslash, front slash, and frontslash. It is not unknown even to see such <a href="/wiki/Back-formations" class="mw-redirect" title="Back-formations">back-formations</a> as reverse backslash.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238216509">.mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#b1d2ff}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}</style>fraction slash</td> <td>This is the Unicode Consortium's formal name for the low slash used to mark fractions.<a href="#cite_note-uni8-51">[49]</a> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+2044 ⁄ FRACTION SLASH) Also sometimes known as the <a href="/wiki/Fraction_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Fraction bar">fraction bar</a>, although this more commonly refers to the horizontal bar style, as in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214402035">⁠1/2⁠. When used as a fraction bar, this form of the mark is less vertical than an ASCII slash, generally close to 45° and <a href="/wiki/Kerning" title="Kerning">kerned</a> on both sides;<a href="#cite_note-bringhurst-53">[51]</a> this use is distinguished by Unicode as the fraction slash.<a href="#cite_note-uni8-51">[49]</a> (This use is sometimes mistakenly described as the sole meaning of "solidus", with its use as a shilling mark and slash distinguished under the name "virgule".<a href="#cite_note-bringhurst-53">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-designorati-54">[52]</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238216509">oblique</td> <td>A formerly common name for the slash in all its uses.<a href="#cite_note-oedobli-3">[3]</a> Also oblique stroke,<a href="#cite_note-oedstroke-55">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-foldc-56">[54]</a> oblique dash, etc. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238216509">scratch comma</td> <td>A modern name for the virgule's historic use as a form of comma.<a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>separatrix</td> <td>Originally, the <a href="/wiki/Vertical_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Vertical line">vertical line</a> separating integers from decimals before the advent of the <a href="/wiki/Decimal_point" class="mw-redirect" title="Decimal point">decimal point</a>; later used for the vertical bar or slash used in <a href="/wiki/Proofreader" class="mw-redirect" title="Proofreader">proofreader</a>'s marginalia to denote the intended replacement for a letter or word <a href="/wiki/Strikethrough" title="Strikethrough">struckthrough</a> in proofed text<a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a> or to separate margin notes.<a href="#cite_note-59">[57]</a> Sometimes misapplied to virgules. </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238216509">shilling mark</td> <td>A development of the <a href="/wiki/Long_S" class="mw-redirect" title="Long S">long S</a> ſ used as an abbreviation for the (obsolete) <a href="/wiki/Shilling_(British_coin)" title="Shilling (British coin)">British shilling</a> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <a href="/wiki/Solidus_(coin)" title="Solidus (coin)">solidus</a>),<a href="#cite_note-oedshill-5">[5]</a> and also for some modern-day currencies (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Somalia), where it sometimes takes the place of a decimal point. The 'slash' is known as a "shilling stroke".<a href="#cite_note-Eckersley_et_al-22">[21]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238216509">slant</td> <td>From its shape, an infrequent name except (as slants) in its use to mark pronunciations off from other text<a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a> and as the original <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> name of the character.<a href="#cite_note-rfc20-49">[47]</a> Also slant line(s) or bar(s).<a href="#cite_note-jed-10">[9]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>slash mark</td> <td>An alternative name used to distinguish the punctuation mark from the word's other senses.<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>slat</td> <td>An uncommon name for the slash used by the <a href="/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language" title="Esoteric programming language">esoteric programming language</a> <a href="/wiki/INTERCAL" title="INTERCAL">INTERCAL</a>.<a href="#cite_note-foldc-56">[54]</a> Also slak.<a href="#cite_note-foldc-56">[54]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>solidus</td> <td>Another name for the mark (derived from the Latin form of 'shilling'), also applied to other slashes separating numbers or letters,<a href="#cite_note-oedsolid-6">[6]</a> used in typography,<a href="#cite_note-bringhurst-53">[51]</a> and adopted by the <a href="/wiki/International_Standards_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="International Standards Organization">ISO</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unicode_Consortium" title="Unicode Consortium">Unicode</a><a href="#cite_note-uni8-51">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a> as their formal name for the ASCII slash ("slant"). (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+002F / SOLIDUS) The solidus's use as a division sign is distinguished as the division slash.<a href="#cite_note-uni8-51">[49]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>stroke</td> <td>A contraction of the phrase <a href="#oblique">oblique stroke</a>, used in <a href="/wiki/Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Telegraph">telegraphy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-oedstroke-55">[53]</a> It is particularly employed in reading the mark out loud: "he stroke she" is a common British reading of "he/she". "Slash" has, however, become common in Britain in computing contexts, while some North American <a href="/wiki/Amateur_radio" title="Amateur radio">amateur radio</a> enthusiasts employ the British "stroke". Less frequently, "stroke" is also used to refer to hyphens.<a href="#cite_note-jed-10">[9]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238216509">virgule</td> <td>A development of virgula ("twig"),<a href="#cite_note-virg-1">[1]</a> the original medieval Latin name of the character when it was used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.<a href="#cite_note-virg-1">[1]</a> Now primarily used as the name of the slash when it is used to mark line breaks in quotations.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Sometimes mistakenly distinguished as a formal name for the slash, as against the solidus's supposed use as a fraction slash.<a href="#cite_note-bringhurst-53">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-designorati-54">[52]</a> Formerly sometimes <a href="/wiki/Anglicization" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglicization">anglicized</a> in British sources as the virgil.<a href="#cite_note-partridge-2">[2]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> The slash may also be read out as and, or, and/or, to, or cum in some compounds separated by a slash; over or out of in fractions, division, and <a href="#Numbering">numbering</a>; and per or a(n) in derived units (as km/h) and prices (as $~/kg), where the division slash stands for "each".<a href="#cite_note-jed-10">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Strikethrough" title="Strikethrough">Strikethrough</a>, including slashes through figures</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feynman_slash_notation" title="Feynman slash notation">Feynman slash notation</a> in physics, which employs slash-like strikethroughs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E2%89%A0" class="mw-redirect" title="≠">Inequality sign</a>, an equals sign with a slash-like strikethrough</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> Nevertheless, the word was already being used in official publications, such as the 1947 <a href="/wiki/Style_guide" title="Style guide">style guide</a> of the US Department of Agriculture Forestry Service.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a> For an example of this in practice, see the section on proofreading marks in <a href="/wiki/New_Hart%27s_Rules" class="mw-redirect" title="New Hart's Rules">New Hart's Rules</a>.<a href="#cite_note-40">[39]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Slash_(punctuation)&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-virg-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-virg_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-virg_1-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-virg_1-2">c</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">"Virgule". Oxford English Dictionary. Vol. XII (Corrected reissue ed.). Oxford University Press. 1933. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/the-oxford-english-dictionary-1933-all-volumes/The%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary%20Volume%2012%20-%20Variant/page/n238/mode/1up?view=theater">235</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Virgule&rft.btitle=Oxford+English+Dictionary&rft.pages=235&rft.edition=Corrected+reissue&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1933&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASlash+%28punctuation%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-partridge-2">^ <a href="#cite_ref-partridge_2-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-partridge_2-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-partridge_2-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-partridge_2-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPartridge2003" class="citation book cs1">Partridge, Eric (2003) [1953]. "The Virgule (or Virgil) or the Oblique". You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lN-KAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA155">155</a> ff. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781134942244" title="Special:BookSources/9781134942244"><bdi>9781134942244</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Virgule+%28or+Virgil%29+or+the+Oblique&rft.btitle=You+Have+a+Point+There%3A+A+Guide+to+Punctuation+and+Its+Allies&rft.place=London&rft.pages=155+ff&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=9781134942244&rft.aulast=Partridge&rft.aufirst=Eric&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASlash+%28punctuation%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-oedobli-3">^ <a href="#cite_ref-oedobli_3-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-oedobli_3-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-oedobli_3-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">"oblique, adj., n., and adv.". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=oblique%2C+adj.%2C+n.%2C+and+adv.&rft.btitle=Oxford+English+Dictionary&rft.edition=3rd&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASlash+%28punctuation%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">"diagonal, adj. and n.". Oxford English Dictionary (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. 1895.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=diagonal%2C+adj.+and+n.&rft.btitle=Oxford+English+Dictionary&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1895&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASlash+%28punctuation%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-oedshill-5">^ <a href="#cite_ref-oedshill_5-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-oedshill_5-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBradley1914" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Bradley, Henry (1914). "shilling, n.". In Murray, James A. H. (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31856/page/n1677/mode/1up">Oxford English Dictionary</a>. Vol. VIII (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 697. <q>1. An English money of account, since the Norman Conquest of the value of 12 pence or <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214402035">⁠1/20⁠ of a pound sterling. Abbreviated s. (__ L. solidus: see SOLIDUS), formerly also sh., shil.; otherwise denoted by the sign /- after the numeral.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=shilling%2C+n.&rft.btitle=Oxford+English+Dictionary&rft.pages=697&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1914&rft.aulast=Bradley&rft.aufirst=Henry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.31856%2Fpage%2Fn1677%2Fmode%2F1up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASlash+%28punctuation%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-oedsolid-6">^ <a href="#cite_ref-oedsolid_6-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-oedsolid_6-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-oedsolid_6-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">"solidus". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99986/page/n23/mode/1up">The Oxford English Dictionary</a>. Vol. X (sole–sz). 1913. p. 401 – via Internet Archive. <q>2. a sloping line used to separate shillings from pence. 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The "/" or line signifies that the pin is activated by a low voltage, or logic 0.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ars+Technica&rft.atitle=RAM+Guide%3A+Part+I+DRAM+and+SRAM+Basics&rft.pages=3&rft.date=2008-06&rft.aulast=Stokes&rft.aufirst=Jon+%22Hannibal%22&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.arstechnica.com%2Fpaedia%2Fr%2Fram_guide%2Fram_guide.part1-3.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASlash+%28punctuation%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation techreport cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/hynix-hy5du12822at-d43-datasheet.pdf#page=5">512Mb DDR SDRAM HY5DU12422A(L)T, HY5DU12822A(L)T, HY5DU121622A(L)T</a> (PDF) (Data sheet). Hynix. 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Retrieved 25 November 2024. <q>It brings the Read/Write (R/W) line low to indicate a write</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=report&rft.btitle=EE+308%3A+Address%2C+Data+and+Control+Buses%29&rft.pages=5&rft.date=2010-04-07&rft.aulast=Rison&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ee.nmt.edu%2F~rison%2Fee308_spr10%2Fsupp%2F100407.pdf%23page%3D5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASlash+%28punctuation%29" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Fowler_solidus-30">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Fowler_solidus_30-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fowler_solidus_30-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFowler1917" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Fowler, Francis George (1917). 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title="Apostrophe">apostrophe</a> </li> <li>  ′   ″   ‴   <a href="/wiki/Prime_(symbol)" title="Prime (symbol)">prime</a> </li> <li>  .   <a href="/wiki/Full_stop" title="Full stop">full stop</a> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>  &   <a href="/wiki/Ampersand" title="Ampersand">ampersand</a> </li> <li>  @   <a href="/wiki/At_sign" title="At sign">at sign</a> </li> <li>  ^   <a href="/wiki/Caret" title="Caret">caret</a> </li> <li>  /   <a class="mw-selflink selflink">slash</a> </li> <li>  \   <a href="/wiki/Backslash" title="Backslash">backslash</a> </li> <li>  …   <a href="/wiki/Ellipsis" title="Ellipsis">ellipsis</a> </li> <li>  *   <a href="/wiki/Asterisk" title="Asterisk">asterisk</a> </li> <li>  ※   <a href="/wiki/Reference_mark" title="Reference mark">Reference mark</a> </li> <li>  ⁂   <a href="/wiki/Asterism_(typography)" title="Asterism (typography)">asterism</a> </li> <li>    *  *  *      <a href="/wiki/Dinkus" title="Dinkus">dinkus</a> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>  -   <a href="/wiki/Hyphen-minus" title="Hyphen-minus">hyphen-minus</a> </li> <li>  ‒   –   —   <a href="/wiki/Dash" title="Dash">dash</a> </li> <li>  ⹀   ⸗   <a href="/wiki/Double_hyphen" title="Double hyphen">double hyphen</a> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>  ?   <a href="/wiki/Question_mark" title="Question mark">question mark</a> </li> <li>  !   <a href="/wiki/Exclamation_mark" title="Exclamation mark">exclamation mark</a> </li> <li>  ‽   <a href="/wiki/Interrobang" title="Interrobang">interrobang</a> </li> <li>  ¡   ¿   <a href="/wiki/Inverted_question_and_exclamation_marks" 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href="/wiki/Underscore" title="Underscore">underscore</a> </li> <li>  ⁀   <a href="/wiki/Tie_(typography)" title="Tie (typography)">tie</a> </li> <li>  |   ¦   ‖   <a href="/wiki/Vertical_bar" title="Vertical bar">vertical bar</a> </li> <li>  •   <a href="/wiki/Bullet_(typography)" title="Bullet (typography)">bullet</a> </li> <li>  ·   <a href="/wiki/Interpunct" title="Interpunct">interpunct</a> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>  ©   <a href="/wiki/Copyright_symbol" title="Copyright symbol">copyright symbol</a> </li> <li>  ℗   <a href="/wiki/Sound_recording_copyright_symbol" title="Sound recording copyright symbol">sound recording copyright</a> </li> <li>  ®   <a href="/wiki/Registered_trademark_symbol" title="Registered trademark symbol">registered trademark</a> </li> <li>  SM   <a href="/wiki/Service_mark_symbol" title="Service mark symbol">service mark 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