Jun 27, 2015ย ยท 22 They can also be called chevrons, or angle brackets. While these terms can be interchangeable in a layman's context, and would not look so different when written by hand, there โ€ฆ

Sep 29, 2008ย ยท These are the signs: * What is it called in general, and what it is called when used in math, to multiply numbers? * is called an asterisk; although sometimes people will use the generic โ€ฆ

May 7, 2019ย ยท People are both named and called. You are "named" at birth by your parents, and "called" by other people during your lifetime. In your examples, however, I would use neither verb. "The first โ€ฆ

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Apr 3, 2023ย ยท This pattern is called the usual arithmetic conversions: The least significant bit is called the low-order bit; the most significant bit is called the high-order bit. After preprocessing, a preprocessing โ€ฆ

Oct 25, 2020ย ยท Is it because, in 'what is it called?', we are asking about the name of the object, and not necessarily the way to call it? I think if I write this, that will confuse my readers even more because โ€ฆ

9 These can be called "brackets." Regarding the side questions, "marks of parenthesis" is the standard term, and parentheses is possible, but a bit breezy. "Parens" is the usual abbreviation.

Apr 5, 2014ย ยท Called the pound sign, number sign and more recently the hashtag, it actually developed as a scribble for the abbreviation of pound in latin: lb, where lb is an abbreviation of libra, itself a โ€ฆ

Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc.). Shouldn't it be: I have an item called SoAndSo. Is "named" an accepta.

Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc.). Shouldn't it be: I have an item called SoAndSo. Is "named" an accepta.

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