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noun/ˈraʊnd brækɪt/
/ˈraʊnd brækɪt/
(also bracket)
(both British English) (North American English or formal parenthesis)
[usually plural]- either of a pair of marks, ( ), placed around extra information in a piece of writing or part of a problem in mathematicsTopics Languagec1, Maths and measurementc1
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