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.
Bracket - Types and uses. 1  Parentheses /pÉËrÉnÎ¸áµ»siËz/ (singular, parenthesis /pÉËrÉnÎ¸áµ»sáµ»s/) (also called simply brackets, or round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets, stalls or, colloquially, parens /pÉËrÉnz/) contain material that serves to clarify (in the manner of a gloss) or is aside from the main point.