To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
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To cause to swerve from a straight course.
To bend; to crook.
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
(slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
A one-dimensional continuum.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
The attractive shape of a woman's body.
A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.