English
Noun
en-noun|sg=square bracket
- Either of a pair of symbols, [ ], used for various purposes, e.g. to enclose text inserted or replaced by an editor, to indicate various mathematical operations, and to indicate a link in MediaWiki? syntax.
#* 1905, Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 33:
#*: We must, in short, employ a special bracket for operative relations ; and the square bracket is the most convenient. Hence [a + bβ] x denotes that a + bβ operates on x, and [φ]<sup>n</sup> denotes that φ operates on itself n - 1 times.
Translations
trans-top|mathematics: symbol [ or ]
Czech: hranatá závorka f
Dutch: rechte haak
Finnish: hakasulje, hakasulku
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See also
angle bracket
brace
bracket
curly bracket
parenthesis
fi:square bracket
ta:square bracket
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