80. [[Request for Comments|RFC]] [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc20 20]. Internet Standard 80.\n "},"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"ref RFC","href":"./Template:Ref_RFC"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"20"}},"i":0}}]}"> [47] Also slant line(s) or bar(s).[9]
slash mark
An alternative name used to distinguish the punctuation mark from the word's other senses.[59]
Another name for the mark (derived from the Latin form of 'shilling'), also applied to other slashes separating numbers or letters,[6] used in typography,[51] and adopted by the ISO and Unicode[49][60] as their formal name for the ASCII slash ("slant"). (U+002F/SOLIDUS)
The solidus's use as a division sign is distinguished as the division slash.[49]
stroke
A contraction of the phrase oblique stroke, used in telegraphy.[53] 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 amateur radio enthusiasts employ the British "stroke". Less frequently, "stroke" is also used to refer to hyphens.[9]
virgule
A development of virgula ("twig"),[1] the original medieval Latin name of the character when it was used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.[1] Now primarily used as the name of the slash when it is used to mark line breaks in quotations.[citation needed] Sometimes mistakenly distinguished as a formal name for the slash, as against the solidus's supposed use as a fraction slash.[51][52] Formerly sometimes anglicized in British sources as the virgil.[2]
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 numbering; and per or a(n) in derived units (as km/h) and prices (as $~/kg), where the division slash stands for "each".[9][61]
Inequality sign, an equals sign with a slash-like strikethrough
Notes
↑ Nevertheless, the word was already being used in official publications, such as the 1947 style guide of the US Department of Agriculture Forestry Service.[8]
↑ For an example of this in practice, see the section on proofreading marks in New Hart's Rules.[39]
References
1 2 3 "Virgule". Oxford English Dictionary. Vol.XII (Corrected reissueed.). Oxford University Press. 1933. p.235.
1 2 3 4 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.155 ff. ISBN9781134942244.
1 2 3 "oblique, adj., n., and adv.". Oxford English Dictionary (3rded.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
↑ "diagonal, adj. and n.". Oxford English Dictionary (1sted.). Oxford University Press. 1895.
1 2 Bradley, Henry (1914). "shilling, n.". In Murray, James A. H. (ed.). Oxford English Dictionary. Vol.VIII (1sted.). Oxford University Press. p.697. 1. An English money of account, since the Norman Conquest of the value of 12 pence or 1/20 of a pound sterling. Abbreviated s. (__L. solidus: see SOLIDUS), formerly also sh., shil.; otherwise denoted by the sign /- after the numeral.
1 2 3 "solidus". The Oxford English Dictionary. Vol.X (sole–sz). 1913. p.401 – via Internet Archive. 2. a sloping line used to separate shillings from pence. A shilling mark.
↑ Larson, E. vH (1947). Style Manual for publications. US Department of Agriculture Forestry Service. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
↑ Cunha, Celso; Cintra, Lindley (2001). Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo (in Portuguese) (3rded.). Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira. ISBN8520911374.
1 2 Miller, Jeff (22 December 2014). "Fractions". Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols. Archived from the original on 2 June 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2016– via Tripod.com.
1 2 3 Eckersley, Richard; Angstadt, Richard; Ellertson, Charles M.; Hendel, Richard; Pascal, Naomi B.; Walker Scott, Anita (1994). Glossary of Typesetting Terms. University of Chicago Press. pp.93, 97. ISBN0226183718.
↑ Smith, D. E. (1908). Rara Arithmetica. Boston: Ginn & Co. – via Internet Archive.
↑ "Number Forms"(PDF). The Unicode Standard (12.1ed.). Unicode Consortium. 2019. Archived(PDF) from the original on 24 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
↑ De Morgan, Augustus (1845). "The Calculus of Functions". Encyclopædia Metropolitana. London: B. Fellowes et al.
↑ Stokes, Jon "Hannibal" (June 2008). "RAM Guide: Part I DRAM and SRAM Basics". Ars Technica. p.3. Putting a "/" in front of the pin name is the standard text way of writing it with a line over it. The "/" or line signifies that the pin is activated by a low voltage, or logic 0.
↑ Rison, Bill (7 April 2010). EE 308: Address, Data and Control Buses)(PDF) (Class Notes). p.5. Retrieved 25 November 2024. It brings the Read/Write (R/W) line low to indicate a write
1 2 Fowler, Francis George (1917). "solidus". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English. p.829 – via Internet Archive. sǒ·lidus, n. (pl. -di). (Hist.) gold coin introduced by Roman Emperor Constantine; (only in abbr. s.) shilling(s), as 7s. 6d., £1 1s.; the shilling line (for ſ or long s) as in 7/6. [LL use of L SOLIDus]
↑ Henry R. T. Muzale, Josephat M. Rugemalira, Researching and Documenting the Languages of Tanzania (2008): "Iraqi orthography includes two letters not used in writing Kiswa-hili, q for the voiceless uvular stop, and x for the voiceless velar fricative. It also uses symbols that are not even part of the Roman alphabet, including a slash / for the pharyngeal fricative, and an apostrophe ' for the glottal stop (Mous et al. 2002)."
↑ "7.02 Spacing, 9.06". btb.termiumplus.gc.ca. Translation Bureau, Public Works and Government Services Canada. 8 October 2009. Archived from the original on 8 November 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
1 2 3 4 Bringhurst, Robert (2002). "5.2.5: Use the Virgule with Words and Dates, the Solidus with Split-level Fractions". The Elements of Typographic Style (3rded.). Point Roberts: Hartley & Marks. pp.81–82. ISBN978-0-88179-206-5.
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