noun Download 🔗Share The punctuation mark \. Examples : "The website address used a forward slash, but the file path on my computer used a backslash. " mark computing technology sign writing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /. Examples : "The teacher corrected the student, saying, "That's not a backslash; it's a regular slash, used in fractions like 1/2." " computing word sign technical language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence. Examples : "To include a quotation mark within a string of text in programming, you often need to backslash it, so the computer doesn't interpret it as the end of the string. " computing technology internet word language communication technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading