Unsupported titles/`lt`
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- (mathematics) Less than.
- (linguistics) Which is from.
- (informal) A left-pointing arrow.
- Antonym: >
- (Internet slang) Is worse (than); is inferior (to).
- Antonym: >
- cats < dogs ― cats are worse than dogs
- dogs < cats ― dogs are worse than cats
- (editorial mark) The counter-diple, a mark in the right margin used together with < in the right margin to note important passages in a text, such as biblical quotations. (See > <.) With the advent of moveable type, these marks were moved into the text, becoming the guillemets › ‹.
- See < > for uses of these symbols enclosing other characters.