backslash
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈbækˌslæʃ/
backslash (plural backslashes)
- The punctuation mark \.
- (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
- 2001, James T. Bretzke, Bibliography on East Asian Religion and Philosophy, Edwin Mellen Press, ISBN 0-7734-7318-1, page 455 ↗:
- […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://
www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).
- […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://
- 2010, Lee Vance, The Garden of Betrayal, Random House (2011), ISBN 978-0-307-39035-6, page 25 ↗:
- “So, do what I tell you. Open a browser window and type this in the menu
[ sic] bar: F-T-P colon backslash backslash euronews dot net backslash...” - I pecked carefully at the keyboard as he dictated a URL that was about fifty characters long, […]
- “So, do what I tell you. Open a browser window and type this in the menu
- 2010, Frank Barnas and Ted White, Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fifth Edition, Elsevier, ISBN 0080953972, page 114 ↗:
- Also, avoid submenus
[ sic] that can confuse the audience—if you're giving lengthy Web site addresses full of backslashes, shorten it so only the Web site's home page is given.
- Also, avoid submenus
- 2001, James T. Bretzke, Bibliography on East Asian Religion and Philosophy, Edwin Mellen Press, ISBN 0-7734-7318-1, page 455 ↗:
- French: barre oblique inversée, contre-oblique, backslash, antislash
- German: Backslash, Rückwärtsschrägstrich
- Italian: barra inversa
- Portuguese: barra invertida, barra inversa
- Russian: обра́тная коса́я
- Spanish: barra inversa, barra oblicua inversa, barra invertida, barra revertida, contrabarra
backslash (backslashes, present participle backslashing; past and past participle backslashed)
- (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
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