The "greater than" is also used to close HTML and XML tags, while the "less than" (<) symbol is used to begin them, as in the following examples: THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

You can use the words 'less than', 'greater than' or 'equal to' to compare numbers. Each phrase has a matching symbol that you can use. There are 3 green cubes and 6 blue cubes. The number of ...

Inequalities are the relationships between two expressions which are not equal to one another. The symbols used for inequalities are <, >, ≤, ≥ and ≠. \(7 \textgreater x\) reads as '7 is ...