oblique stroke

English

A clarification of the intended sense of oblique.

oblique stroke (plural oblique strokes)

(typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- 1953, Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies, page 155:
  The oblique, short for oblique stroke or line, is written /, originally the French way of writing or printing a comma.
- 2004, Trevor C. Hartley, European Union Law in a Global Context, page 18:
  They are normally in the form "Case 79/87", in which the two digits after the oblique stroke (slash) indicate the year.

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