Usually means: Escape character in many languages.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word backslash:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. backslash: Merriam-Webster
  2. backslash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backslash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backslash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Backslash, backslash: Wordnik
  6. backslash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. backslash: Wiktionary
  8. backslash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. backslash: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. backslash: Dictionary.com
  11. backslash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Backslash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. backslash: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. backslash: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  15. backslash: Merriam-Webster

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. backslash: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. backslash: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. backslash: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backslash: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backslash: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The punctuation mark \.
noun:  (computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

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