backslash

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. The punctuation mark \.
2. (proscribed, rare) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.

Verb

To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

Conceptos

barra inversa

barra invertida

barra diagonal inversa

barra oblicua inversa

barra revertida

barra de directorio

contrabarra

Sinónimos

character

dash

💨

hyphen

slash

Traducciones

Backslash

barre oblique inverse

barra invertida

antislash

ters bölü

umgekehrter Schrägstrich

backslash

ters eğik çizgi

barre oblique inversée

barre

Strich

αντιπλάγια

κάθετος

Schrägstrich

ανάστροφη κάθετος

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈbækˌslæʃ/

Etimología (Inglés)

From back + slash, because it is a slash “leaning back” against the direction of writing (in writing lines from left to right), in contrast to the more common (forward) slash / (“solidus, oblique, diagonal”). The actual direction of (hand-)writing these marks can be reversed, when writing from left to right, top to baseline: the backslash forwards, the (forward) slash backwards. The naming can be explained as an anthropomorphism, assuming a bar (|) standing on the baseline, facing in the direction of writing, toppling backwards or forwards, respectively. The (new) Unicode name of \ is REVERSE SOLIDUS.