Meaning

5 senses
  1. Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.

    Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.

    spitze Klammer, spitze Klammer

    углова́я ско́бкаuglovája skóbka, углова́я ско́бкаuglovája skóbka

    кутова́ ду́жкаkutová dúžka, кутова́ ду́жкаkutová dúžka

    either of two punctuation marks (‘<’ or ‘>’) used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material

  2. 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. Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean punctuation.

  4. Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used to enclose the name of the domain in which a concept and a term is used.

  5. An object used to connect two other objects at an angle

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
either of the signs〈 or 〉:
Русский
By meaning 1
either of the signs〈 or 〉:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
either of the signs〈 or 〉:

Forms

plural: angle brackets
Singularangle bracket
Pluralangle brackets

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
typographic and mathematical symbols:chevron
Close in meaning
  • an L-shaped metal bracket:angle iron
  • either of two punctuation marks (‘<’ or ‘>’) used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material:bracket

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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