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curly brackets

curly brackets is the plural of curly bracket.

Meaning of curly bracket

Noun

curly bracket (plural curly brackets)

  1. (US) Either { or }, having various uses in academia, math, music, computer programming and chemistry.
    Synonyms:
    accolade, (Commonwealth) brace, (Commonwealth) curly brace, (US) hooked bracket, moustache, mustache, squiggly, pregnant parenthesis
  2. (US) Large curly bracket.

Questions about curly brackets

What is curly brackets the plural of?
Curly brackets is the plural of curly bracket.

Words near curly brackets in the dictionary

  1. curly braces language
  2. curly braces languages
  3. curly bracket
  4. curly bracket language
  5. curly bracket languages
  6. curly brackets
  7. curly cue
  8. curly cuh
  9. curly cuhs
  10. curly endive
  11. curly endives

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