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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

band, bar, bend, bias, cross-hatching, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, hachure, hairline, hatching, line, lineation, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, rhomboid, score, scratch comma, separatrix, slant, slash, solidus, streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, transverse, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring

Dictionary Results for virgule:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

virgule
    n 1: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
         information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule,
         diagonal, stroke, separatrix]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Virgule \Vir"gule\, n. [F. virgule, fr. L. virgula, dim. of
   virga. See Verge a rod.]
   A comma. [R.]
   [1913 Webster]

         In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a
         caesura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule.
                                                  --Hallam.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

virgule

    Rare, and ambiguous: slash or comma.

   "Virgule" (or rather, Latin "virgula", meaning "little rod"
   or, vividly enough, "little penis") was the name of a
   punctuation character shaped like a small slash and used in
   the Latin writing system much like a modern comma -- hence
   the ambiguity of this term in modern English.

   Compare French "virgule" and Italian "virgola", meaning
   "comma" (not "slash"); Italian "doppia virgola" and
   "virgoletta", both meaning "double quote".

   (1997-04-08)

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