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The most common use is to replace the hyphen to make clear a strong joint between words or phrases, such as "the Ernest Hemingway/William Faulkner generation".
For a specialized use of the slash in the titles of fan fiction stories, see slash fiction.
A solidus is used in to separate numerator and denominator in a vulgar fraction or as a division operator in general.
Usually called a slash or sometimes, unnecessarily, a forward slash, / is used to separate directory or names in Unix file paths and in URLs.
This is in contrast to the backslash \ which is path delimiter on Microsoft Windows systems. Windows uses the backslash rather than the slash because in the early days of MS-DOS -- before directories were supported! -- the slash was chosen as the command-line option indicator:
Before decimalisation[?] in the UK, / was used to separate pounds, shillings, and pence values.
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