foreslash

plural foreslashes

1. rarecomputingSynonym of slash ⟨/⟩.

   Don't confuse the backslash (\) with the foreslash (/).

   1994, Bryan Pfaffenberger, I hate PCs

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   Yes, that is a combination of foreslashes and backslashes.

   1994 February, InfoWorld

   ...using transitions labelled by their input and output, separated by a foreslash, with x and y standing for any non-identical nucleotides...

   1997, Sándor Suhai, Theoretical and computational methods in genome research

   The command set print rat off . switches off the special printing for _/_ so that rational numbers will be printed with spaces around the foreslash sign.

   2007, Manuel Clavel, Francisco Durán, Steven Eker, Patrick Lincoln, Narciso Martí-Oliet, All About Maude - A High-Performance Logical Framework

   Synonyms: slash