"fraction slash" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fraction slashes [plural]
Etymology: fraction + slash Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fraction|slash}} fraction + slash Head templates: {{en-noun}} fraction slash (plural fraction slashes)
  1. (typography) The slash variant ⟨⁄⟩ used for expressing fractions. Categories (topical): Typography Translations (Translations): murtolukuviiva (Finnish), törtvonal (Hungarian), fleascach [masculine] (Irish), barra [feminine] (Italian), barra obliqua [feminine] (Italian), sbarretta obliqua [feminine] (Italian), linie oblică [feminine] (Romanian), bară oblică [feminine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-fraction_slash-en-noun-ZYA2cdPi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: media, publishing, typography Related terms: apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (US, Canada) (alt: ( )), full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], semicolon (alt: ;), slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [)

Inflected forms

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      "word": "murtolukuviiva"
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