square bracket

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   either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material

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Questions about square bracket

What does square bracket mean?

square bracket means "either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material".

What is another word for square bracket?

Close synonyms include bracket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is square bracket a common word?

square bracket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.