Mabano (pia: parandesi kutoka Kigiriki na braketi kutoka Kiingereza) ni jozi la alama za uakifishaji ambalo kwa kawaida linatenga sehemu ya sentensi au taarifa kutoka muktadha wake. Mabano ya kawaida zaidi ni yale ya mviringo ( ), ya mraba [ ] na ya maua { }. Kutoka katika lugha, mabano yamekuwa yakitumika sana katika hisabati. Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm: 3.1.3 Paired Brackets. Lennard, John (1991). But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-811247-5.  Turnbull (1964). The Graphics of Communication. New York: Holt.  States that what are depicted as brackets above are called braces and braces are called brackets. This was the terminology in US printing prior to computers. media kuhusu Brackets pa Wikimedia Commons The Wiktionary definition of bracket