solidus (n.)

  1. a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages

    [ Syn: bezant , bezzant , byzant ]

  2. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

    [ Syn: slash , virgule , diagonal , stroke , separatrix ]

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