English Explanatory Dictionary

angle bracket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
  2. Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.
  3. Either of a pair of symbols, ⟨ ⟩, used to enclose text in various technical contexts, and in mathematical formulas to denote an interval, a continuous parameter or an inner product.
  4. Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean punctuation.
  5. Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used to enclose the name of the domain in which a concept and a term is used.
  6. an object used to connect two other objects at an angle

Pronunciation

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Word forms

angle bracket angle brackets

Synonyms

wicket chevron

Related words

brace bracket curly bracket guillemet lenticular bracket parenthesis square bracket

Translations

Asturian: corchete angular Bulgarian: ъ́глова скоба Catalan: clau angular Catalan: claudàtor angular Chinese Mandarin: 尖括號 /尖括号 Chinese Mandarin: 角括號 /角括号 Czech: lomená závorka Dutch: hoekanker Esperanto: angula krampo Finnish: kulmasulku Finnish: kulmasulje French: chevron French: crochet oblique French: anti-lambda Galician: antilambda Galician: paréntese angular German: spitze Klammer Greek: γωνιώδης αγκύλη Hungarian: csúcsos zárójel Hungarian: kúpos zárójel Hungarian: horpadt zárójel Irish: lúibín uilleach Italian: parentesi angolare Italian: parentesi angolata Japanese: 山括弧 Polish: nawias trójkątny Portuguese: parêntese angular Portuguese: parêntesis angular Portuguese: chevron Russian: углова́я ско́бка Spanish: corchete angular Spanish: antilambda Spanish: diple Spanish: cuña Swedish: vinkelparentes Ukrainian: кутова́ ду́жка
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