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sep⋅a⋅ra⋅trix

  [sep-uh-rey-triks, sep-uh-rey-]
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–noun, plural sep⋅a⋅ra⋅tri⋅ces  [sep-uh-rey-tri-seez, -er-uh-trahy-seez] , sep⋅a⋅ra⋅trix⋅es.
1. something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
2. virgule.
3. Mathematics. one of several symbols for separating components of a number, as a decimal point or comma.
Origin:
1650–60; < NL sēparātrīx, LL; see separator, -trix

vir⋅gule

  [vur-gyool]
–noun Printing.
1. a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and/or his/her attorney must appear in court.
2. a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.: 3/21/27; 3/4; Sweetest love I do not go/For weariness of thee.
Also called diagonal, separatrix, shilling mark, slant, slash, solidus; especially British, stroke.

Origin:
1830–40; < F virgule comma, little rod < L virgula; see virgulate
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Word Origin & History

virgule 
thin sloping line, used as a comma in medieval MSS, 1837, from Fr. virgule, from L. virgula "punctuation mark," lit. "little twig," dim. of virga "shoot, rod, stick." The word had been borrowed in its L. form in 1728.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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