Editing Slash (punctuation) (section)

{{Short description|Slanting line punctuation mark (/)}}
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The '''slash''' is a slanting line [[punctuation mark]] {{char|/}}. It is also known as a '''stroke''', a '''solidus''', a '''forward slash''' and [[#Alternative names|several other historical or technical names]]. Once used as the equivalent of the modern [[full stop|period]] and [[comma]], the slash is now used to represent [[#Division|division]] and [[#Fractions|fractions]], as a [[#Dating|date separator]], or to connect alternative terms.

A slash in the reverse direction {{char|\}} is known as a [[backslash]].