"diagonal mark" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "To distinguish the intended sense of diagonal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "diagonal marks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "diagonal mark (plural diagonal marks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Punctuation marks",
          "orig": "en:Punctuation marks",
          "parents": [
            "Letters, symbols, and punctuation",
            "Symbols",
            "Orthography",
            "Writing",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Typography",
          "orig": "en:Typography",
          "parents": [
            "Printing",
            "Writing",
            "Industries",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Business",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:",
          "text": "Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of slash as the forward slash ⟨/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\\⟩."
      ],
      "id": "en-diagonal_mark-en-noun-lCm4SWlp",
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
        [
          "slash",
          "slash#English"
        ],
        [
          "forward slash",
          "forward slash"
        ],
        [
          "/",
          "/"
        ],
        [
          "sometime",
          "sometime"
        ],
        [
          "also",
          "also"
        ],
        [
          "its",
          "its"
        ],
        [
          "proscribe",
          "proscribe"
        ],
        [
          "sense",
          "sense"
        ],
        [
          "inclusive",
          "inclusive"
        ],
        [
          "backslash",
          "backslash"
        ],
        [
          "\\",
          "\\"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(typography) Synonym of slash as the forward slash ⟨/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\\⟩."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\\",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "slash as the forward slash"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "diagonal mark"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "diagonal mark"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "To distinguish the intended sense of diagonal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "diagonal marks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "diagonal mark (plural diagonal marks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Punctuation marks",
        "en:Typography"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:",
          "text": "Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of slash as the forward slash ⟨/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\\⟩."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
        [
          "slash",
          "slash#English"
        ],
        [
          "forward slash",
          "forward slash"
        ],
        [
          "/",
          "/"
        ],
        [
          "sometime",
          "sometime"
        ],
        [
          "also",
          "also"
        ],
        [
          "its",
          "its"
        ],
        [
          "proscribe",
          "proscribe"
        ],
        [
          "sense",
          "sense"
        ],
        [
          "inclusive",
          "inclusive"
        ],
        [
          "backslash",
          "backslash"
        ],
        [
          "\\",
          "\\"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(typography) Synonym of slash as the forward slash ⟨/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\\⟩."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\\",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "slash as the forward slash"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "diagonal mark"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "diagonal mark"
}