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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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{
"ref": "1905, Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 33",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"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."
],
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"[",
"Unsupported titles/`lsqb`#Translingual"
],
[
"]",
"Unsupported titles/`rsqb`#Translingual"
],
[
"mathematical",
"mathematical"
]
],
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"word": "angle bracket"
},
{
"word": "brace"
},
{
"word": "bracket"
},
{
"word": "curly bracket"
},
{
"word": "parenthesis"
},
{
"word": "⎴"
},
{
"english": "vertical square brackets",
"word": "⎵"
}
],
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"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kvadrátnaja dúžka",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "квадра́тная ду́жка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "srédna skóba",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сре́дна ско́ба"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "claudàtor"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "parèntesi quadrat"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "方括號"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fāngkuòhào",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "方括号"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "zhōngkuòhú",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "中括弧"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hranatá závorka"
},
{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "závorka"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "skarp parentes"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vierkant haakje"
},
{
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vierkante haak"
},
{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
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],
"word": "blokhaakje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blokhaak"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "hornklombur"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "hakasulje"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "hakasulku"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crochet"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳvadraṭuli prčxilebi",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "კვადრატული ფრჩხილები"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eckige Klammer"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "agkýli",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αγκύλη"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "szögletes zárójel"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lúibín cearnach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "parentesi quadra"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "sredna zagrada",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "средна заграда"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "tanda kurung siku"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "kōṣṭhaṁ",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "കോഷ്ഠം"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lhoobeen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "taiepa tūtika"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crotchet cârré"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hakeparentes"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nawias kwadratowy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colchete"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "parêntese reto"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paranteză pătrată"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paranteză dreaptă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kvadrátnaja skóbka",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "квадра́тная ско́бка"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "camag cheàrnach"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "uglata zagrada"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zátvorka"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hranatá zátvorka"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oglati oklepaj"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corchete"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hakparentes"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "panalikop"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "köşeli ayraç"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "köşeli parantez"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kvadrátna dúžka",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "квадра́тна ду́жка"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "dấu ngoặc vuông"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bach petryal"
}
]
}
],
"word": "square bracket"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "square brackets",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-noun"
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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "angle bracket"
},
{
"word": "brace"
},
{
"word": "bracket"
},
{
"word": "curly bracket"
},
{
"word": "parenthesis"
},
{
"word": "⎴"
},
{
"english": "vertical square brackets",
"word": "⎵"
}
],
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1905, Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 33",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"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."
],
"links": [
[
"[",
"Unsupported titles/`lsqb`#Translingual"
],
[
"]",
"Unsupported titles/`rsqb`#Translingual"
],
[
"mathematical",
"mathematical"
]
]
}
],
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kvadrátnaja dúžka",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "квадра́тная ду́жка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "srédna skóba",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сре́дна ско́ба"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "claudàtor"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "parèntesi quadrat"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "方括號"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fāngkuòhào",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "方括号"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhōngkuòhú",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "中括弧"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hranatá závorka"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "závorka"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "skarp parentes"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vierkant haakje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vierkante haak"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "blokhaakje"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "blokhaak"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "hornklombur"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "hakasulje"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "hakasulku"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crochet"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ḳvadraṭuli prčxilebi",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "კვადრატული ფრჩხილები"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eckige Klammer"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "agkýli",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "αγκύλη"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "szögletes zárójel"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lúibín cearnach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "parentesi quadra"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "sredna zagrada",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "средна заграда"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "tanda kurung siku"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "kōṣṭhaṁ",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "കോഷ്ഠം"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lhoobeen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "taiepa tūtika"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "crotchet cârré"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hakeparentes"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nawias kwadratowy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "colchete"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "parêntese reto"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paranteză pătrată"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "paranteză dreaptă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kvadrátnaja skóbka",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "квадра́тная ско́бка"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "camag cheàrnach"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "uglata zagrada"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zátvorka"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hranatá zátvorka"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oglati oklepaj"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corchete"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "hakparentes"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "panalikop"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "köşeli ayraç"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "köşeli parantez"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kvadrátna dúžka",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "квадра́тна ду́жка"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"word": "dấu ngoặc vuông"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "symbol [ or ]",
"tags": [
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"word": "bach petryal"
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}
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