angle bracket

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noun
  1. one of two marks < or > used in printing to enclose parenthetical matter, interpolations, etc.

Origin of angle bracket

1
First recorded in 1955–60

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British Dictionary definitions for angle bracket

angle bracket

noun
  1. either of a pair of brackets having the shapes < and >

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