Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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.
noun
The ⟨L⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ mark formerly used to divide integers from decimals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: pipe, slash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decimal mark, radix point, point, mark, character, separator
noun
Synonym of decimal point, which replaced such marks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: decimal point, which replaced such marks
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The proofreader's mark resembling a slash ⟨ / ⟩ or vertical bar ⟨ | ⟩ placed after a note in the margin to indicate that it should replace the item(s) struckthrough in the running text or to separate it from other margin notes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A terminator: a line on a partially-illuminated surface separating the lit and shaded regions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
The line between regions having different magnetic fields.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
The boundary separating two modes of behavior in a differential equation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: punctuation, punctuation mark
History
Learned borrowing from Latin sēparātrīx, the feminine form of separator (originally owing to an implied līnea (“line”)), from sēparāre (“to divide; to separate”) + -trix (forming female agents). By surface analysis, separate + -trix. First developed as a decimal mark among the medieval Arab mathematicians, whence a shorter variant gave rise to the decimal comma employed by many European countries and their former colonies.
