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 (/) before an index r denotes differentiation with respect to χr.
    • 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.
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