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 /.
|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).}}
To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
To turn over, capsize or upset.
To overthrow or destroy.
Of a body of water: to undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.
A turning over or upside-down; inversion.