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Slash (punctuation) A slash (/) is a punctuation mark used for various purposes. Other names for it are a stroke, virgule, diagonal, right-leaning stroke, oblique dash, solidus, slant, slake and whack, or forward slash. A mark in the reverse direction (\) is called a reverse slash or backslash. One use is showing how much of something is left.
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In Ancient Greek, in rhetoric and prosody, the term κῶλον (kôlon, lit. 'limb, member of a body') did not refer to punctuation, but to a member or section of a complete thought or passage; see also Colon (rhetoric). From this usage, in palaeography, a colon is a clause or group of clauses written as a line in a manuscript. In the 3rd century BC, Ari...
In modern English usage, a complete sentence precedes a colon, while a list, description, explanation, or definition follows it. The elements which follow the colon may or may not be a complete sentence: since the colon is preceded by a sentence, it is a complete sentence whether what follows the colon is another sentence or not. While it is accept...
Suffix separator
In Finnish and Swedish, the colon can appear inside words in a manner similar to the apostrophe in the English possessive case, connecting a grammatical suffix to an abbreviation or initialism, a special symbol, or a digit (e.g., Finnish USA:n and Swedish USA:s for the genitive case of "USA", Finnish %:ssa for the inessive case of "%", or Finnish 20:een for the illative caseof "20").
Abbreviation mark
Written Swedish uses colons in contractions, such as S:t for Sankt (Swedish for "Saint") – for example in the name of the Stockholm metro station S:t Eriksplan, and k:a for kyrka ("church") – for instance Svenska k:a (Svenska kyrkan), the Evangelical Lutheran national Church of Sweden. This can even occur in people's names, for example Antonia Ax:son Johnson (Ax:son for Axelson). Early Modern Englishtexts also used colons to mark abbreviations.
Word separator
In Ethiopia, both Amharic and Ge'ez script used and sometimes still use a colon-like mark as word separator. Historically, a colon-like mark was used as a word separator in Old Turkic script.
The colon is used in mathematics, cartography, model building, and other fields—in this context it denotes a ratio or a scale, as in 3∶1 (pronounced "three to one"). When a ratio is reduced to a simpler form, such as 10∶15 to 2∶3, this may be expressed with a double colon as 10∶15∶∶2∶3; this would be read "10 is to 15 as 2 is to 3". This form is al...
The character was on early typewriters and therefore appeared in most text encodings, such as Baudot code and EBCDIC. It was placed at code 58 in ASCIIand from there inherited into Unicode. Unicode also defines several related characters: 1. U+003A : COLON 2. U+02D0 ː MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON, used in IPA. 3. U+10781 𐞁 MODIFIER LETTER SUPE...
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Feb 22, 2024 · In earlier versions of the HTML specification, the <i> element was merely a presentational element used to display text in italics, much like the <b> element was used to display text in bold letters. This is no longer true, as these tags now define semantics rather than typographic appearance. A browser will typically still display the contents ...
