curly bracket
English
Noun
curly bracket (plural curly brackets)
- Either of the two characters
{
and}
, i.e., left curly bracket { and right curly bracket }, with the shape of a curved, pointed line, having various uses in math, music, computer programming and chemistry.
Synonyms
- accolade, brace, curly brace, hooked bracket, squiggly, pregnant parentheses
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
either of the two characters: “{” and “}”
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Further reading
curly bracket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- curly bracket at OneLook Dictionary Search
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