suture. ( 1 in surgery) a thread or wire used to join together a wound. ( 2 in surgery) the seam found after stitching two parts together. 3  an immovable joint between the bones of the skull. ( in plants) the line of fusion between two carpels.
For other uses, see ( ) (disambiguation). A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text. The matched pair may be described as opening and closing, or left and right symbols.
Square brackets are also used to enclose the Latin word sic, which means so, thus.. In academic writing, [sic] is used to denote an error that originally appears in the source material and is not attributable to the author who is using the quote. For example: