curly bracket

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curly bracket (plural curly brackets)

  1. Either { or }, having various uses in math, music, computer programming and chemistry.
    Synonyms: accolade, brace, curly brace, hooked bracket, moustache, mustache, squiggly, pregnant parenthesis
    Hypernym: bracket

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