Virgule

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "virgule":
     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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)