virgule

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

virgule
    n 1: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
         information [syn: {solidus}, {slash}, {virgule},
         {diagonal}, {stroke}, {separatrix}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Virgule \Vir"gule\, n. [F. virgule, fr. L. virgula, dim. of
   virga. See {Verge} a rod.]
   A comma. [R.]
   [1913 Webster]

         In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a
         caesura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule.
                                                  --Hallam.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

virgule

   <character> Rare, and ambiguous: {slash} or {comma}.

   "Virgule" (or rather, Latin "virgula", meaning "little rod"
   or, vividly enough, "little penis") was the name of a
   punctuation character shaped like a small {slash} and used in
   the Latin writing system much like a modern {comma} -- hence
   the ambiguity of this term in modern English.

   Compare French "virgule" and Italian "virgola", meaning
   "comma" (not "slash"); Italian "doppia virgola" and
   "virgoletta", both meaning "{double quote}".

   (1997-04-08)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "virgule":
      band, bar, bend, bias, cross-hatching, dash, delineation, diagonal,
      dotted line, hachure, hairline, hatching, line, lineation, oblique,
      oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, rhomboid, score,
      scratch comma, separatrix, slant, slash, solidus, streak,
      streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke,
      sublineation, transverse, underline, underlining, underscore,
      underscoring