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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]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Latin virgula small stripe, obelus, from diminutive of virga rod Date: 1837 slash 4

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a slanting line used to mark division of words or lines. 2 = SOLIDUS 1. Etymology: F, = comma, f. L virgula dimin. of virga rod

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Virgule Vir"gule, n. [F. virgule, fr. L. virgula, dim. of virga. See Verge a rod.] A comma. [R.] In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a c[ae]sura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule. --Hallam.

Moby Thesaurus

band, bar, bend, bias, cross-hatching, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, hachure, hairline, hatching, line, lineation, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, rhomboid, score, scratch comma, separatrix, slant, slash, solidus, streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, transverse, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring