What does the "\" mean in this statement about regular languages?

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enter image description here I have having difficulty finding the meaning of the backslash in the statement. I don't know if it could be a division, an OR operator or something else. If someone could provide information about it, that would be very helpful!

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The backslash like symbol is used to indicate elements present in set A and not in set B, in the case of A\B. In your question {aa,ab,ba,bb} \ {aa,bb}, the elements aa and bb are present in both sets, so they are excluded. Thus the answer is the remaining elements in the first set which are ab and ba.