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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Separatrix Sep`a*ra"trix, n.; pl. L. -trices, E. -trixes. [L., she that separates.] (Arith.) The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.