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angle brackets

angle brackets is the plural of angle bracket.

Meaning of angle bracket

Noun

angle bracket (plural angle brackets)

  1. Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.
  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.
    Synonyms:
    chevron
  3. 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. an object used to connect two other objects at an angle

Questions about angle brackets

What is angle brackets the plural of?
Angle brackets is the plural of angle bracket.

Words near angle brackets in the dictionary

  1. angle bisector
  2. angle bisectors
  3. angle brace
  4. angle braces
  5. angle bracket
  6. angle brackets
  7. angle for
  8. angle for farthings
  9. angle grinder
  10. angle grinders
  11. angle harp

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