"/". Common nAMes include: (forward) slash stroke ITU-T: slant oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal solidus over slak virgule INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in progrAMming, and to separate the components in UnixpathnAMes, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several progrAMs. (1996-09-24)