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angle bracket

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

Origin:
1955–60
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angle bracket  
n.  
  1. Either of a pair of symbols, < >, used to enclose written or printed material.

  2. Mathematics Either of these symbols, used especially together to indicate quantities to be treated as a unit.

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angle bracket character
Either of the characters "<" (less-than, ASCII 60) and ">" (greater-than, ASCII 62). Typographers in the Real World use angle brackets which are either taller and slimmer (the ISO "Bra" and "Ket" characters), or significantly smaller (single or double guillemets) than the less-than and greater-than signs.
See broket.
(1995-11-24)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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