backtick
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backtick (plural backticks)
- (computing) The symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark.
- 2000, Lincoln D Stein, Network Programming with Perl:
- The backtick acts like the double-quote operator.
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the symbol `, resembling a reversed quotation mark
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- “backtick”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- backtick, backquote at Google Ngram Viewer