virgule
Diagonal line mark
A virgule is a forward slash (/), the diagonal line used to separate alternatives and/or, indicate line breaks in poetry quoted inline Roses are red / Violets are blue, or mark fractions 3/4.
The term is more common in typography and editing than in everyday speech, where most people just say "slash."
Angled line or swipe
- solidusDiagonal typographic mark
- obliqueAngled, not straightforward
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
- diagonalSlanting line or path
separator · delimiter · mark · typographic · printing · typesetting · character · glyph
Route for traveling
- directoryFile system container
- URLWeb location identifier
- rootUnderground absorbing structure
- separatorSomething that divides
delimiter · escape · syntax · markup · command-line · Unix · Linux · folder
Former British monetary unit
- penceBritish currency units
- perFor each one
- ratioComparative numerical relation
- divisionSplitting into parts
numerator · denominator · inline · notation · monetary · currency · historical · British
slash
Angled line or swipe
diagonal · separator · delimiter · mark · typographic · printing · typesetting · character · glyph · ASCII
path
Route for traveling
separator · delimiter · escape · syntax · markup · command-line · Unix · Linux · folder · backslash
shilling
Former British monetary unit
division · numerator · denominator · inline · notation · monetary · currency · historical · British · pre-decimal
either
One of two
dual · both · inclusive · shorthand · abbreviation · notation
line-break
Forced text continuation below
- caesuraPause within a line
- enjambmentUnpaused verse continuation
- scansionAnalyzing verse rhythm patterns
meter · verse · prosody · stanza · couplet · half-line · pause · rhythm · lyric · medieval