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rk commands such as joining and leaving a chat room or sending private messages for example in irc join services is a command to join the channel services and me is a command to format the following message as though it were an action instead of a spoken message in minecraft s chat function the slash is used for executing console and plugin commands in second life s chat function the slash is used to select the communications channel and send commands to it for example if a virtual house s lights use channel 42 the command 42 on would turn them on the gedcom standard for exchanging computerized genealogical data uses slashes to delimit surnames an example would be bill smith jr slashes around surnames are also used in personal ancestral file electronics edit a leading slash is one of several common conventions for indicating an active low digital signal which performs the named function when at a low voltage level 27 for example dynamic random access memory has active low chip select row address strobe and column address strobe signals commonly written cs ras and cas 28 this extends to signals which select between two options such as r w which indicates that the function is read when high and write when low sometimes written as r w for greater clarity 29 currency edit main article shilling sign in kisoro with prices in ugandan shillings note the use of the notation the slash as the shilling mark or solidus 30 was an abbreviation for the shilling a former coin of the united kingdom and its former colonies before the decimalisation of currency in britain its currency abbreviations collectively sd represented their latin names derived from a medieval french modification of the late roman libra solidus and denarius 31 thus one penny less than two pounds was written 1 19s 11d or 1 19ſ 11d during the period when english orthography included the long s ſ or ſ abbreviating shilling the ſ came to be written as a single slash 32 33 the d might be omitted and 2ſ6 two shillings and sixpence became simplified as 2 6 30 amounts in full pounds shillings and pence could be written in many different ways for example 1 9s 6d 1 9 6 1 9 6 and even 1 9 6d with a slash used also to separate pounds and shillings 34 the same style was also used under the british raj and early independent india for the predecimalization rupee anna pie system 35 in five east african countries kenya tanzania uganda somalia and the de facto country of somaliland where the national currencies are denominated in shillings the decimal separator is a slash mark e g 2 50 where the minor unit is zero an equals sign is used e g 5 dates edit slashes are a common calendar date separator 12 used across many countries and by some standards such as the common log format used by web servers depending on context it may be in the form day month year month day year or year month day if only two elements are present they typically denote a day and month in some order for example 9 11 is a common american way of writing the date september 11 britons write this as 11 9 owing to the ambiguity across cultures the practice of using only two elements to denote a date is sometimes proscribed 36 because of the world s many varying conventional date and time formats iso 8601 advocates the use of a year month day system separated by hyphens e g victory in europe day occurred on 1945 05 08 in the iso 8601 system slashes represent date ranges 1939 1945 represents what is more commonly written in anglophone countries as 1939 1945 the autumn term of a northern hemisphere school year might be marked 2010 09 01 12 22 in english a range marked by a slash often has a separate meaning from one marked by a dash or hyphen 12 24 25 december would mark the time shared by both days i e the night from christmas eve to christmas morning rather than the time made up by both days together which would be written 24 25 december similarly a historical reference to 1066 67 might imply an event occurred during the winter of late 1066 and early 1067 37 whereas a reference to 1066 67 would cover the entirety of both years the usage was particularly common in british english during world war ii where such slash dates were used for night bombing air raids it is also used by some police forces in the united states numbering edit the slash is used in numbering to note totals for example page 17 35 indicates that the relevant passage is on the 17 th page of a 35 page document similarly the marking 333 500 on a product indicates it is the 333rd out of 500 identical products or out of a batch of 500 such products for scores on schoolwork in games and so on 85 100 indicates 85 points were attained out of a possible 100 slashes are also sometimes used to mark ranges in numbers that already include hyphens or dashes one example is the iso treatment of dating another is the us air force s treatment of aircraft serial numbers which are normally written to note the fiscal year and aircraft number for example 85 1000 notes the thousandth aircraft ordered in fiscal year 1985 to indicate the next fifty subsequent aircraft a slash is used in place of a hyphen or dash 85 1001 1050 linguistic transcription edit main article international phonetic alphabet brackets and transcription delimiters a pair of slashes as slants are used in the transcription of speech to enclose pronunciations i e phonetic transcriptions for example the ipa transcription of the english pronunciation of solidus is written ˈsɒlɪdəs 7 properly slashes mark broad or phonemic transcriptions whereas narrow allophonic transcriptions are enclosed by square brackets for example the word little may be broadly rendered as ˈlɪtəl but a careful transcription of the velarization of the second l would be written ˈlɪɾɫ̩ in sociolinguistics a double or triple slash may also be used in the transcription of a traditional sociolinguistic interview or in other type of linguistic elicitation to represent simultaneous speech interruptions and certain types of speech disfluencies single and double slashes are often used as typographic substitutes for the click letters ǀ and ǁ a diaphonemic transcription may be marked in several ways e g with a pair of slash marks poetry edit the slash is used in various scansion notations for representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse typically to indicate a stressed syllable citation needed line breaks edit the slash as a virgule offset by spaces to either side is used to mark line breaks when transcribing text from a multi line format into a single line one 12 38 it is particularly common in quoting poetry song lyrics and dramatic scripts formats where omitting the line breaks risks losing meaningful context for example here is a part of prince hamlet s soliloquy to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them hamlet act ii scene ii 39 full citation needed if someone wanted to quote the above soliloquy in a prose paragraph it is standard to mark the line breaks as follows to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them less often virgules are used in marking paragraph breaks when quoting a prose passage some style guides such as new hart s prefer to use a pipe in place of the slash to mark these line and paragraph breaks 12 the virgule may be thinner than a standard slash when typeset in computing contexts it may be necessary to use a non breaking space before the virgule to prevent it from being widowed on the next line abbreviation edit the slash has become standard in several abbreviations generally it is used to mark two letter initialisms such as a c short for air conditioner w o without b w black and white or less often between w e whatever or less often weekend or week ending i o input output r w read write and n a not applicable or in aviation not authorized other initialisms employing the slash include w with and w r t with regard to such slashed abbreviations are somewhat more common in british english and were more common around the second world war as with s e to mean single engined the abbreviation 24 7 denoting 24 hours a day 7 days a week describes a business that is always open or unceasing activity 12 the slash is occasionally used for general omission in abbreviations as in g town for georgetown guyana though usually an apostrophe is used instead as in c ville for charlotteville the slash in derived units such as m s metre per second is not an abbreviation slash but a straight division it is however in that position read as per rather than e g over which can be seen as analogous to units whose symbols are pure abbreviations such as mph miles per hour although in abbreviations per is p or dropped entirely psi pound per square inch rather than a slash in the us government the names of offices within various departments are abbreviated using slashes starting with the larger office and following with its subdivisions for example the federal aviation administration s office of commercial space transportation is formally abbreviated faa ast proofreading edit the slash or vertical bar as a separatrix is used in proofreading to mark the end of margin notes d or to separate margin notes from one another the slash is also sometimes used in various proofreading initialisms such as l c and u c for changes to lower and upper case respectively business correspondence edit in formal business correspondence when a letter is typed by someone other than the person responsible for its contents it is standard to add a suffix with the initials of the author in upper case and typist in lower case after the signature block separated by a slash for example a letter typed by d e at the direction of a b c would include the line abc de 41 fiction edit the slash is used in fan fiction to mark the romantic pairing a piece will focus upon e g a k s denoted a star trek story would focus on a sexual relationship between kirk and spock a usage which developed in the 1970s from the earlier friendship pairings marked by ampersands e g k s the genre as a whole is now known as slash fiction because it is more generally associated with homosexual male relationships lesbian slash fiction is sometimes distinguished as femslash in situations where other pairings occur the genres may be distinguished as m m f f and so on libraries edit the slash is used under the anglo american cataloguing rules to separate the title of a work from its statement of responsibility i e the listing of its author director etc like a line break this slash is surrounded by a single space on either side for example gone with the wind by margaret mitchell star trek ii the wrath of khan videorecording paramount pictures the format is used in both card catalogs and online records addresses edit the slash is sometimes used as an abbreviation for building numbers for example in some contexts where 8 a evergreen gardens specifies apartment 8 in building a of the residential complex evergreen gardens in the united states however such an address refers to the first division of apartment 8 and is simply a variant of apartment 8a or 8 a similarly in the united kingdom an address such as 12 2 anywhere road means flat or apartment 2 in the building numbered 12 on anywhere road the slash is also used in the united states in the postal abbreviation for care of for example judy smith c o bob smith could be used when bob smith is receiving mail on judy s behalf typically this would be used in a situation where someone is either out of town in an institution or hotel or temporarily staying at another s address in spanish address writings c is used as the abbreviation of calle or carrer in catalan meaning street music edit slashes are used in musical notation as an alternative to writing out specific notes where it is easier to read than traditional notation or where the player can improvise they are commonly used to indicate chords either in place of or in combination with traditional notation notably in the form of slash chords for drummers they find use as an indication to continue with a previously indicated style sports edit a slash is used to mark a spare knocking down all ten pins in two throws when scoring ten pin and duckpin bowling 42 text messaging edit in online messaging a slash might be used to imitate the formatting of a chat command e g writing fliptable as though there were such a command or the closing tags of languages such as html e g writing endrant to end a diatribe or s to mark the preceding text as sarcastic a pair of slashes is sometimes used as a way to mark italic text where no special formatting is available e g italics citation needed before an e signature edit in legal writing especially in a pleading attorneys often sign their name with an s that is either enclosed by two slashes or followed by a single slash and preceding the attorney s name 43 an example would be the following s bob smith attorney for plaintiff as a letter edit the iraqw language of tanzania uses the slash as a letter representing the voiced pharyngeal fricative as in ameeni woman 44 spacing edit there are usually no spaces either before or after a slash according to new hart s rules the oxford style guide a slash is usually written without spacing on either side when it connects single words letters or symbols 12 exceptions are in representing the start of a new line when quoting verse or a new paragraph when quoting prose the chicago manual of style also allows spaces when either of the separated items is a compound that itself includes a space our new zealand western australia trip 45 compare use of an en dash used to separate such compounds the canadian style a guide to writing and editing prescribes no space before or after an oblique when used between individual words letters or symbols one space before and after the oblique when used between longer groups which contain internal spacing giving the examples n a and language and society langue et société 46 according to the chicago manual of style when typesetting a url or computer path line breaks should occur before a slash but not in the text between two slashes 47 unicode edit though the ascii slash is a reserved character that is prohibited in windows file and folder names the big solidus is permitted first box above in this context it is very similar to the slash second box as a very common character the slash as slant was originally encoded in ascii with the decimal code 47 or 0x 2f 48 the same value was used in unicode which calls it solidus and also adds some more characters u 002f solidus sol 49 u 0337 ̷ combining short solidus overlay for strikethrough u 0338 ̸ combining long solidus overlay for strikethrough u 2044 fraction slash u 2215 division ...