square bracket

square bracket

noun
bracket (def. 3).

Origin:
1885–90
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Square bracket is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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square bracket
 
n
1.  either of a pair of characters [ ], used to enclose a section of writing or printing to separate it from the main text
2.  Also called: bracket either of these characters used as a sign of aggregation in mathematical or logical expressions indicating that the expression contained in the brackets is to be evaluated first and treated as a unit in the evaluation of the whole

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