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.
Both { } and [ ] are types of brackets. The word bracket is related to the French braguette from the name for codpiece armor, that audacious costumery that bears resemblance to the architectural feature the bracket, among other things. The word bracket still applies to shelf supports that resemble the symbol, ].