square bracket
Text insertion mark
Square brackets are the punctuation marks [ and ], used in pairs to enclose material.
In writing, they typically mark editorial insertions or clarifications within quoted text: The senator said, "He [the president] was wrong".
In mathematics and programming, square brackets serve various technical functions including array indexing and interval notation.
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- quoteRepeated words from another
- slashAngled line or swipe
- subscriptText below the line
- intervalsGaps between events
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Punctuation enclosing supplementary text
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