May 15, 2003

broket

/broh´k@t/ or /broh´ket`/ n.

[rare; by analogy with ‘bracket’: a ‘broken bracket’] Either of the characters < and >, when used as paired enclosing delimiters. This word originated as a contraction of the phrase ‘broken bracket’, that is, a bracket that is bent in the middle. (At MIT, and apparently in the Real World as well, these are usually called angle brackets.)

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:55 AM

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