oblique dash

English

Etymology

A clarification of the intended sense of oblique.

Noun

oblique dash (plural oblique dashes)

1. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
   • 1934, E.E. Rich, The Staple Court Books of Bristol, page vi:

     No punctuation has been inserted in the records of cases... The oblique dash in punctuation is freely used. Where it is used as a mere flourish in conjunction with other punctuation it has been ignored, where it terminates an entry the dash has been read as a full-stop, and where it occurs in the middle of an entry it has been read as a comma.

   • 1962, Giuseppe Grioli, Mathematical Theory of Elastic Equilibrium (Recent Results), page 132, n. 1:

     In (9.2) and in the following equations an oblique dash (/) before an index r denotes differentiation with respect to χ_r.

   • 1985, Stephen Banfield, Sensibility and English Song, page 456:

     Where Moore's and Finzi's datings differ substantially, both are given, separated by an oblique dash, with Moore's first.