I'm looking for a particular element for a project and I'm not sure what to google. What's the name of that large brace that is used to group items together? A crude Paint rendition:
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You're pushing it now! We'll be arguing over whether this is a left brace or a left medial brace. – Edwin Ashworth Mar 25 '13 at 12:55
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1You yourself have already called it “a large curly brace”; why would you need something else? – tchrist Mar 25 '13 at 14:24
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1This is not a duplicate of 302! This question is about what you call a single large curly brace that is used as a grouping mechanism to span multiple lines. I've wanted to know the answer to that question for many years myself. – phenry Feb 04 '14 at 19:56
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2In music, the large curly braces that span and join several staves are called *accolades*. The usage and meaning of this is exactly the same as in your picture, but as far as I know, the term is only used when referring specifically to musical notation. – Janus Bahs Jacquet Feb 05 '14 at 23:33
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1The Wikipedia article does not mention the particular usage of braces that the OP specifies. How in-house 'side brace' is is debatable, but I imagine there isn't a more generally used term. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44330/side-brace-around-image-with-underbrace shows a sidebrace and an underbrace. – Edwin Ashworth Mar 25 '13 at 12:33
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I do not know of a specific name for a curly bracket that is used to group things other than curly bracket/brace used to group things – mplungjan Mar 25 '13 at 12:38
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1There are braces other than side braces and underbraces (and possibly top braces). OP specifies 'large curly bracket' as opposed to 'curly bracket', so I assume he means multi-row or multi-column usages. He also asks what type of brace, not bracket. [Ah - his edit confirms this.] The Wikipedia article doesn't mention these. Your diagram is fine (and was upvoted). – Edwin Ashworth Mar 25 '13 at 12:48