How to pronounce “backslash”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The punctuation mark \.
• (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
• [Verb]
• (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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