Slash

Slash may refer to:

  • Slash (punctuation), the "/" punctuation character, also used in computing
    • In speech colloquially as a conjunction, in a place where a "/" would be put in writing
  • In speech colloquially as a conjunction, in a place where a "/" would be put in writing
  • Slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction dealing with same-sex relationships or sexual encounters
  • Slash (logging), woody debris generated by timber harvesting
  • Slash Pine, a tree native to the southeast United States
  • Slash (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Comics Universe
  • Slash (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), a character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mighty Mutanimals
  • Slash and burn, an agricultural procedure
  • Slash'EM, a variant of the computer game NetHack
  • Feynman slash notation, of quantum field theory
  • Slash rating, a US National Electrical Code circuit interrupt hardware qualifier
  • Slash (2015 film), an upcoming film
  • A cutting attack with a bladed weapon
  • Slash (CMS), the content management software used by Slashdot
  • Slashdot

    Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science and technology that are submitted and evaluated by its users. Each story has a comments section attached to it.

    Slashdot was founded in 1997 by Hope College student Rob Malda, also known as "Commander Taco", and classmate Jeff Bates, also known as "Hemos". It was acquired by DHI Group, Inc. (i.e., Dice Holdings International, which created the Dice.com website for tech job seekers.)

    Summaries of stories and links to news articles are submitted by Slashdot's own readers, and each story becomes the topic of a threaded discussion among users. Discussion is moderated by a user-based moderation system. Randomly selected moderators are assigned points (typically 5) which they can use to rate a comment. Moderation applies either -1 or +1 to the current rating, based on whether the comment is perceived as either "normal", "offtopic", "insightful", "redundant", "interesting", or "troll" (among others). The site's comment and moderation system is administered by its own open source content management system, Slash, which is available under the GNU General Public License.

    Slash (punctuation)

    The slash (US) or stroke (UK), formally the solidus (/), is an oblique slanting line used as a punctuation mark and for various other purposes. It has several other historical or technical names.

    History

    Slashes may be found in early writing as a variant form of dashes, vertical strokes, &c. The present use of a slash distinguished from such other marks derives from the medieval European virgule (Latin: virgula, lit. "twig"), which was used as a period, scratch comma, and caesura mark. The Fraktur script used throughout Central Europe in the early modern period used a single slash as a scratch comma and a double slash (//) as a dash. The scratch comma was eventually shortened into the modern comma ,, while the double dash developed into the double oblique hyphen and double hyphen or before being usually simplified into various single dashes.

    Usage

    Conjunction

    Connecting alternatives

    The slash is commonly used in many languages as a shorter substitute for the conjunction "or", typically with the sense of exclusive or (e.g., the option Y/N permits yes or no but not both).

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