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English
Pronunciation
Noun
square bracket (plural square brackets)
- Either of a pair of symbols, [ ], used for various purposes, e.g. to enclose text inserted or replaced by an editor, and to indicate various mathematical operations.
She said that she "believe[s] that everything happens for a reason."
1905, Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 33:We must, in short, employ a special bracket for operative relations ; and the square bracket is the most convenient. Hence [a + bβ] x denotes that a + bβ operates on x, and [φ]n denotes that φ operates on itself n - 1 times.
Translations
symbol [ or ]
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: corchete (ast) m
- Belarusian: квадра́тная ду́жка f (kvadrátnaja dúžka)
- Bulgarian: сре́дна ско́ба f (srédna skóba), квадратна скоба f (kvadratna skoba), структурна скоба f (strukturna skoba) (rare)
- Catalan: claudàtor (ca), parèntesi quadrat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 方括號 / 方括号 (zh) (fāngkuòhào), 中括號 / 中括号 (zh) (zhōngkuòhào)
- Czech: hranatá závorka (cs) f, závorka (cs) f
- Danish: skarp parentes c
- Dutch: vierkant haakje n, vierkante haak m, blokhaakje (nl) n, blokhaak (nl) m
- Esperanto: rekta krampo
- Faroese: hornklombur n pl
- Finnish: hakasulje (fi), hakasulku (fi)
- French: crochet (fr) m
- Galician: corchete m
- Georgian: კვადრატული ფრჩხილები (ḳvadraṭuli prčxilebi)
- German: eckige Klammer f
- Greek: αγκύλη (el) f (agkýli)
- Hungarian: szögletes zárójel (hu)
- Irish: lúibín cearnach m
- Italian: parentesi quadra
- Japanese: 角括弧 (ja) (かくかっこ, kakukakko, かくがっこ, kakugakko), 大括弧 (だいかっこ, daikakko), ブラケット (ja) (buraketto)
- Korean: 대괄호(大括弧) (ko) (daegwalho)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: средна заграда f (sredna zagrada)
- Malay: tanda kurung siku
- Malayalam: കോഷ്ഠം (ml) (kōṣṭhaṁ)
- Manx: lhoobeen m
- Māori: taiepa tūtika
- Marathi: चौकटी कंस (caukṭī kausa), चौकोनी कंस (caukonī kausa)
- Norman: crotchet cârré m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hakeparentes m
- Polish: nawias kwadratowy m
- Portuguese: colchete (pt) m, parêntese reto f
- Romanian: paranteză pătrată f, paranteză dreaptă f
- Russian: квадра́тная ско́бка f (kvadrátnaja skóbka)
- Scottish Gaelic: camag cheàrnach f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: uglata zagrada f
- Slovak: zátvorka f, hranatá zátvorka f
- Slovene: oglati oklepaj m
- Spanish: corchete (es) m
- Swedish: hakparentes (sv) c
- Tagalog: panalikop
- Turkish: köşeli ayraç (tr), köşeli parantez (tr)
- Ukrainian: квадра́тна ду́жка f (kvadrátna dúžka)
- Vietnamese: dấu ngoặc vuông
- Welsh: bach petryal m
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