backslashes (0 synonym found)

We don't have synonyms for backslashes yet — it may be a rare, specialized, newly coined, or misspelled word. The closest thesaurus entries we have are backlashes, backsplashes and backslash.


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Definition of backslashes:

(n) : The punctuation mark \.
(v) : (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
(n) : (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.

Definition of backslashes:

(n) : The punctuation mark \.
(v) : (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
(n) : (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.

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