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    [Noun]  | "square bracket" 


    1: bracket

    Origin: 1872 ;

    [Noun]  | "brack*et" | \ ˈbra-kət \


    1: an overhanging member that projects from a structure (such as a wall) and is usually designed to support a vertical load or to strengthen an angle

    2: a fixture (as for holding a lamp) projecting from a wall or column

    3: one of a pair of marks [ ] used in writing and printing to enclose matter or in mathematics and logic as signs of aggregation —called also square bracket

    Origin: 1574 ;

     Perhaps from Middle French braguette codpiece, from diminutive of brague breeches, from Old Occitan braga, from Latin braca, of Celtic origin {mat|breech|};

    [Noun]  | "bracket" 


    1: one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic;


      * e.g., " ... they're in the same income bracket "



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     [ "square bracket" ]

    1: ASCII 91 and 93 (and hence U+005B and U+005D). Used in matching pairs to denote stage directions in a play or additions to a quotation. In programming languages with C-like syntax, square brackets typically enclose array subscripts. In mathematics, their most frequent use is to denote closed intervals of real numbers. On Urban Dictionary, because they're used for markup and there are no escape sequences, opening square brackets can never appear in the text of a definition.

      * e.g.,  ... The standard QWERTY keyboard makes square brackets easier to type than parentheses, which is pretty silly considering how much more common parentheses are. 

     [ "Square Brackets" ]

    1: The thing used to link other words with

      * e.g.,  ... You can use the square brackets to link other words. For example, booty will become booty. 

     [ "Square Brackets" ]

    1: The thing that links words within the square brackets

      * e.g.,  ... Woah he used square brackets 

     [ "square brackets" ]

    1: a key on the keyboard that the Urban Dictionary HATES

      * e.g.,  ... In the boxes below, link to other words with square brackets. For example, booty will become booty. 

     [ "All square brackets" ]

    1: When you type every word in square brackets

      * e.g.,  ... Person: "Everything I'm typing is in All square brackets, even the comma and colon and period and quotations." 

     [ "The thing that links words within the square brackets" ]

    1: why are you here

      * e.g.,  ... The thing that links words within the square brackets is used to lead you into a different definition and stuff 

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