large curly bracket in English

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        "A larger variant of either { or } used when indicating a relationship between otherwise separate elements, having various uses in academia, math, music, computer programming and chemistry."
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          "music",
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          "computer",
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          "programming",
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        "(chiefly US) A larger variant of either { or } used when indicating a relationship between otherwise separate elements, having various uses in academia, math, music, computer programming and chemistry."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "accolade"
        },
        {
          "word": "(Commonwealth) large curly brace"
        },
        {
          "word": "moustache"
        },
        {
          "word": "mustache"
        },
        {
          "word": "squiggly"
        }
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "large curly bracket"
}

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{
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    {
      "form": "large curly brackets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "large curly bracket (plural large curly brackets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      ],
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        {
          "word": "curly bracket"
        }
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "math",
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        ],
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          "music",
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        ],
        [
          "computer",
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        ],
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          "programming",
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        ],
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          "chemistry",
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        "(chiefly US) A larger variant of either { or } used when indicating a relationship between otherwise separate elements, having various uses in academia, math, music, computer programming and chemistry."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "accolade"
        },
        {
          "word": "(Commonwealth) large curly brace"
        },
        {
          "word": "moustache"
        },
        {
          "word": "mustache"
        },
        {
          "word": "squiggly"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "large curly bracket"
}

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"large curly bracket" meaning in English

Noun