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单词 angle bracket
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angle bracketn.

Brit. /ˈaŋɡl ˌbrakɪt/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡ(ə)l ˌbrækət/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: angle n.2, bracket n.
Etymology: < angle n.2 + bracket n.
1. Architecture, Engineering, etc. (a) A bracket fixed at the corner of a building or other structure, typically to support the eaves or cornice. (b) A bracing or supporting bracket consisting of two arms at right angles.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > angle-bracket
bracket1627
fid1644
angle bracket1733
crank1769
angle bar1793
gusset18..
angle iron1819
angle plate1850
1733 F. Price Treat. Carpentry 4 An Ellipsis so form'd, is agreeable to a Circle in any Position: Such as Groins, or Angle Brackets, without Tracing.
1753 F. Price Brit. Carpenter (ed. 3) 40 A corner, or angle bracket... The projecture of the angle or mitre bracket.
1852 R. G. Hatfield Amer. House-carpenter i. 126 (heading) To find the angle-bracket for a cornice.
1912 Daily Commonwealth (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) 2 Dec. 7/2 The arms should be braced underneath by means of a pair of 2 by 2 inch iron angle brackets.
1926 Inventory Hist. Monuments Huntingdonshire (Royal Comm. Hist. Monuments) 220/1 The upper storey [of the house and shop] projects and has an angle-bracket below.
2007 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 7 Mar. bs6 Furniture that children might be tempted to climb on..should be anchored to a wall or floor with angle brackets.
2. Typography, etc. Either of the symbols < and >, principally used as a bracket (bracket n. 5a). Cf. square bracket n. at square adj. Compounds 3a.Sometimes printed 〈 and 〉, to distinguish them from the mathematical ‘less than’ and ‘greater than’ symbols.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > brackets
parenthesis1582
squadron1618
parathesis1633
brace1656
hooks1680
bracket1750
circumflex1801
round bracket1847
curve1851
angle bracket1890
square bracket1891
paren1905
angled bracket1954
semi-quadratures-
1890 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 11 305 Angle brackets < > shew the completion of words abbreviated either intentionally or otherwise.
1938 E. J. Morley H. C. Robinson on Bks. & Writers I. 37 Passages between angle brackets are either entirely in shorthand or in a mixture of shorthand and longhand in the manuscript.
1956 Ann. Math. Statistics 27 38 The symmetric means..which we will denote by angle brackets, as 〈3〉, 〈134〉, etc.
1991 UnixWorld Aug. 118/2 The while statement on line 3 uses the angle bracket operator to read each line from the STDIN filehandle attached to your standard input stream.
2000 J. Gillies & R. Cailliau How Web was Born iv. 160 Angle brackets are a feature of a markup language called Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) that evolved from another called GML.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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