noun
escape character; ESC
A control character used in computing to signal that the following character(s) should be interpreted differently, often to represent special commands or formatting.
文字列にエスケープ文字を含めることで、特殊な意味を持つ文字を通常の文字として扱えます。
By including an escape character in a string, you can treat characters with special meanings as ordinary characters.
このプログラミング言語では、バックスラッシュがエスケープ文字として使われます。
In this programming language, the backslash is used as the escape character.