oblique
noun/əˈbliːk/
/əˈbliːk/
(British English) (also slash British and North American English)
- the symbol (/) used to show alternatives, as in lunch and/or dinner and 4/5 people and to write fractions, as in ¾Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin obliquus.
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