n. pl 1. An abbreviatory convention which allows the inclusion in a schema of two or more optional elements which must be either all present or all absent in any one reading. For example, consider a language in which all consonants become palatalized...

Brackets are punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text. With respect to computer science, the term is sometimes said to only strictly apply to the square or box type.[1] There are four main types of...