oblique stroke

character "/". Common names include: (forward) slash;

stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal;

solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat.

Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and

to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence

also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in

several programs.

(1996-09-24)