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Slash


A slash (/) is used to separate alternatives (and/or, his/her, men/women). Otherwise called a solidus, slant, virgule, or oblique, it can imply that both alternatives are equally appropriate in a given context (missing/stolen; damaged/wornout). Slashes are also used in the numerical form of fractions (1/5, 3/16), as a symbol representing the word per (beats/minute, feet/second), and in expressions of dates (2005/06; 9/11/01). Slashes are also used to indicate the beginnings of new lines in passages of poetry, when not laid out separately as in the original: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Note that with the rapid development of electronic communications in recent years, the slash has been integrated into the rendering of Web site addresses (http://www.factsonfile.com/).

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