Broket

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broket
/broh´k@t/
/broh´ket`/
Usage: n.
Derivation: Rare; by analogy with `bracket': a `broken bracket'


broket: /broh´k@t/ /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.)

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Source: broket, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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