angle bracket

English

bronze angle bracket

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋ.ɡəl ˌbrækɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

angle bracket (plural angle brackets)

1. Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
   1. (computing) Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.
   2. (typography, mathematics) 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.
   3. (typography) Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean punctuation.
   4. (terminology) Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used to enclose the name of the domain in which a concept and a term is used.
   5. (engineering) an object used to connect two other objects at an angle

Synonyms

• (computing): wicket
• (typographic and mathematical symbols): chevron

Translations

either of the signs < or > / ⟨ or ⟩ / 〈 or 〉

• Asturian: corchete angular m
• Bulgarian: ъ́глова скоба f (ắglova skoba)
• Catalan: clau angular f, claudàtor angular m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尖括號 / 尖括号 (zh) (jiānkuòhào), 角括號 / 角括号 (zh) (jiǎokuòhào)

• Czech: lomená závorka f
• Dutch: hoekanker n
• Esperanto: angula krampo (typography)
• Finnish: kulmasulku, kulmasulje
• French: chevron (fr) m, crochet oblique m, anti-lambda m
• Galician: antilambda m, paréntese angular m
• German: spitze Klammer f
• Greek: γωνιώδης αγκύλη (el) f (goniódis agkýli)
• Hungarian: csúcsos zárójel (hu), kúpos zárójel, horpadt zárójel
• Irish: lúibín uilleach m
• Italian: parentesi angolare f, parentesi angolata f
• Japanese: 山括弧 (やまがっこ, yamagakko)
• Polish: nawias trójkątny m
• Portuguese: parêntese angular m, parêntesis angular m, chevron (pt) m
• Russian: углова́я ско́бка f (uglovája skóbka)
• Spanish: corchete angular m, antilambda m, diple f, cuña (es) f
• Swedish: vinkelparentes (sv) c
• Ukrainian: кутова́ ду́жка f (kutová dúžka)

engineering: object used to connect two other objects at an angle

• Bulgarian: ъ́глова пла́нка f (ắglova plánka)
• Spanish: escuadra (es) f

See also

• brace
• bracket
• curly bracket
• guillemet
• lenticular bracket
• parenthesis
• square bracket