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"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"word": "sinjal djagonali"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bakstrek"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ukośnik odwrotny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ukośnik wsteczny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ukośnik lewy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barra invertida"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barra inversa"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bară oblică inversă"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"nonstandard"
],
"word": "linie oblică inversă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obrátnaja kosája",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "обра́тная коса́я"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obrátnaja kosája čertá",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "обра́тная коса́я черта́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obrátnyj slɛš",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "обра́тный слэш"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "békslɛ́š",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "бе́кслэ́ш"
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{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "spätná lomka"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "leva poševnica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barra inversa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barra oblicua inversa"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "barra invertida"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "barra revertida"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "contrabarra"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"word": "แบ็กสแลช"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"word": "ters bölü"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "obérnena skisná rýska",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "обе́рнена скісна́ ри́ска"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "béksleš",
"sense": "punctuation mark",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "бе́кслеш"
}
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"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Estonian translations",
"Terms with Faroese translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Maltese translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Slovene translations",
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"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
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"alt": "&",
"word": "ampersand"
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{
"alt": "*; ⁂",
"word": "asterisk and asterism"
},
{
"alt": "@",
"word": "at sign"
},
{
"alt": "•",
"word": "bullet"
},
{
"alt": "† ‡",
"word": "dagger"
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{
"alt": "°",
"word": "degree symbol"
},
{
"alt": "#",
"word": "number sign"
},
{
"alt": "′",
"word": "prime"
},
{
"alt": "backslash",
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{
"alt": "_",
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{
"alt": "|",
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{
"alt": "|",
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"To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence."
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"computing",
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[
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[
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[
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"(computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence."
],
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"transitive"
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"engineering",
"mathematics",
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"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
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"ipa": "/ˈbækˌslæʃ/"
},
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{
"rhymes": "-æʃ"
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],
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{
"word": "back slash"
}
],
"word": "backslash"
}
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