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A slash is a punctuation mark that looks like a slanted line (/) and is used in writing to separate words or show alternatives, such as in "and/or" or in abbreviations like "mph" (miles per hour). It appears in many contexts including dates, website addresses, and formal documents where writers need a concise way to indicate options or divisions between terms.
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The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /. It is also known as a stroke or solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names. Once used as the equivalent of the modern period and comma, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, as a date separator, in between multiple alternative or related terms, and to indicate abbreviation.
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