⟨ ⟩
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Translingual
Symbol
⟨ ⟩ (English symbol name angle brackets)
- (mathematics) Encloses the inner product of two vectors.
- (mathematics) Denotes the expectation value of something.
Punctuation mark
⟨ ⟩
- (linguistics) Encloses orthographic representation.
- (papyrology, epigraphy) Encloses restored writing that was mistakenly omitted by the original scribe.
Usage notes
- For these uses, the characters U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET and U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET should be used.
- The characters U+2329 LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET and U+232A RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET are "deprecated and are strongly discouraged for mathematical use because of their canonical equivalence to CJK punctuation."[1]
Alternative forms
Coordinate terms
Chinese
Punctuation mark
See also
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