|passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}
The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
A visitor to a website who ceases to continue using and navigating around the site after reaching some specified page; or such an act of cessation.
A sudden downward slope.
A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc.
The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea.
A sudden decrease.
A space reserved outside a bus or railway station for vehicles stopping to drop off passengers for onward transit.
A time during which passengers, such as school children, are dropped off.