carets in English
noun
1
a mark (‸, ⁁) placed below the line to indicate a proposed insertion in a printed or written text.
In fact, there is a linguistic analog: the use of carets , superscripts, and footnotes - all vertical operations - to embed new information in a finished text.
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1. Backslash A mark of punctuation (\) introduced in 1960 as a deliberate way to convert two ALGOL symbols ("up" and "down" carets) into ASCII by using the new Backslash and its traditional opposite number, the virgule or slant (/): \/ - or - /\ for example.