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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Synonym of slash as the forward slash ⟨/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\⟩.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: slash as the forward slash
Antonyms: none provided
History
To distinguish the intended sense of diagonal.
