brackets
Sign in to saveA bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British and American English. Brackets, without further qualification, in British English refers to the ... marks and in American English the ... marks.
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A bracket is a punctuation mark used to separate or isolate a portion of text or data from the surrounding content, and comes in four main pairs of different shapes with names that vary between British and American English. The term "brackets" refers to different specific marks depending on whether you're using British English (where it means one pair) or American English (where it means another pair), which is why clarity about which version of English is being used can matter when discussing punctuation.
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Key facts
- Punctuation mark.name
- Angle brackets
- Punctuation mark.variant1
- ⟨ ⟩
- Punctuation mark.unicode_list
- Less/greater than(half width): Less/greater than(full-width East Asian):
- Punctuation mark.variant2
- ⟪ ⟫
- Punctuation mark.caption1
- Angle brackets (BE&AE)
- Punctuation mark.caption2
- Angle brackets (BE&AE)
- Punctuation mark.variant3
- < >
- Punctuation mark.caption3
- less-than and greater-than
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40 sectionsContents
- History
- Typography
- Parentheses or round brackets
- Uses of ( )<span class="anchor" id="Uses of parentheses"></span><span class="anchor" id="Uses of round brackets"></span>
- Language
- Enumerations
- Accounting
- Parentheses in mathematics
- Parentheses in programming languages
- Taxonomy
- Chemistry
- Square brackets<span class="anchor" id="square bracket"></span>
- Uses of [ ]<span class="anchor" id="Uses of square brackets"></span>
- Proofreading
- Law
- Square brackets in mathematics
- Chemistry
- Square brackets in programming languages
- <span class="anchor" id="Double brackets"></span>Double brackets ⟦ ⟧
- Lenticular brackets【】<span class="anchor" id="Lenticular brackets"></span>
- Floor ⌊ ⌋ and ceiling ⌈ ⌉ corner brackets<span class="anchor" id="Floor and ceiling corner brackets"></span>
- Quine corners ⌜⌝ and half brackets ⸤ ⸥ or ⸢ ⸣<span class="anchor" id="Quine corners and half brackets"></span>
- Brackets with quills ⁅ ⁆<span class="anchor" id="Brackets with quills"></span>
- Curly brackets<span class="anchor" id="Braces"></span><span class="anchor" id="Brace"></span><span class="anchor" id="Curly bracket"></span>
- Uses of { }<span class="anchor" id="Uses of curly brackets"></span>
- Music
- Chemistry
- Curly brackets in programming languages
- Curly brackets in mathematics
- Angle brackets<span class="anchor" id="Angle bracket"></span><span class="anchor" id="Chevrons"></span><span class="anchor" id="Chevron"></span>
- Shape
- Uses of ⟨ ⟩<span class="anchor" id="Uses of angle brackets"></span>
- Angle brackets in mathematics
- Physics and mechanics
- Angle brackets in programming languages
- Unicode<span class="anchor" id="Encoding"></span>
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British and American English. Brackets, without further qualification, in British English refers to the ... marks and in American English the ... marks.
Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as those used by linguists.