🔣 A < or > symbol 🔩 An L-shaped support

angle bracket

5.2

Symbols < and > used to enclose tags in computer code

noun
/ˈæŋɡəl ˈbrækɪt/

Specialized

: corchete angular

An HTML document starts with angle brackets like this and closes with angle brackets like this.

Examples

If we have a word XI want to write it as two coordinates C and I I'm going to use angle brackets so it doesn't get too confusing.
So in angle brackets you put what type is in the array.
Expected value of X that's X with angled brackets around it is equal to this sum.
Are these square brackets, sorry, the angled brackets which that defines.
So a data item is always angle bracket: angle bracket with key and value separated like this and we have to compute something.
In HTML, you need to place tags within angle brackets to properly format the text.
When using the programming language, remember to enclose your variables in angle brackets for clarity.
To denote the function, you must use angle brackets around the arguments.

Synonyms

bracket

vsangle bracket

Specialized

5 4.1

An angle-shaped mark like < used to enclose code tags

means the same but uses an alternate name for the same marks

Surface Forms

angle bracket singular

angle brackets plural

Morphology

angle + bracket

The parts 'angle' (a corner/acute shape) + 'bracket' (a type of bracket) invite the inference of a bracket shaped like an angle, so some basic idea is available from the constituents. However, identifying that this specifically names the punctuation marks '<' and '>' used in computing/markup is domain-specific and relies on specialized knowledge or the alternate sense of 'bracket' (punctuation), so the connection is only partly predictable for a B1 learner.

Etymology

Angle bracket also names the symbols < and > because they look like small angles. The word angle points to their shape and bracket shows they 'enclose' text, so the name explains why programmers use them to mark tags or parts of code.