A pair of mirror-image symbols used to enclose text, with one symbol being an "open", and the other a "close". e.g. [square brackets], curly braces, and parentheses.
brackets ( ) - Use parentheses to group words e.g. (Child OR adolescent) AND (hearing OR auditory) finds articles with one or both "child" and "adolescent" and one or both of the words "hearing" or "auditory"
the punctuation marks [ ] used only within a quoted passage to enclose additions (which explain a work or give information to the reader) in your words; NOT the same as parenthesis.
Grouping symbols [ ], used after the use of parentheses.
The symbols [ and ], with specific uses. PARENTHESES are often called brackets.
Squared-off inclusion symbols ([ ]).
parentheses (rounded brackets), square brackets are
Curved or square punctuation marks enclosing words inserted into a text
The symbols used in algebraic formulas, (,).
The characters [ (left bracket) and ] (right bracket), also known as square brackets. When used in the phrase "enclosed in (square) brackets" the symbol [ immediately precedes the object to be enclosed, and ] immediately follows it. When describing these characters in the portable character set, the names left-bracket and right-bracket are used. X/Open.
symbols used to enclose groups of related words, often within parentheses
See grouping symbols. The symbols [ and ].
(1.) The ASCII characters [ (left bracket) and ] (right bracket), also known as "square brackets." (This usage does not follow the British usage of "brackets" to mean parentheses, the characters that enclose this sentence.) (2.) In SNA, one or more chains of request units and their responses, which are exchanged between two LU-LU half-sessions and represent a transaction between them. A bracket must be completed before another bracket can be started. Examples of brackets are database inquiries and replies, update transactions, and remote-job-entry output sequences to workstations.