Associations to the word «Backslash»
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Wiktionary
BACKSLASH, noun. The punctuation mark \.
BACKSLASH, noun. (computing) (rare) (proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
BACKSLASH, verb. (computing) (transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.