angle bracket

Noun

1. Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.

   1. (computing) Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.

   2. (typography, mathematics) Either of a pair of symbols, ⟨ ⟩, used to enclose text in various technical contexts, and in mathematical formulas to denote an interval, a continuous parameter or an inner product.

   3. (typography) Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean punctuation.

   4. (terminology) Either of a pair of symbols, 〈 〉, used to enclose the name of the domain in which a concept and a term is used.

   5. (engineering) an object used to connect two other objects at an angle