typographical mark (glyph) used mainly in computing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The backslash (\), is a glyph mostly used in computing. It has other names, like reverse slash, backslant, and slosh.[1] It is not used in normal writing, which is one reason for its use in computing.
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