In examples below, a greater-than sign indicates that one sound changes to another.

However, when you compare two strings, the less-than and greater-than signs are not used.

He adds it was "absolutely illegal", followed by a winking emoticon formed of a greater-than sign and an exclamation mark.

This form is often used for code snippets containing a greater-than sign, which would otherwise end the formatting code.

ASCII does not have the much greater-than sign.

The less-than and greater-than signs (at the beginning of lines that are added, deleted or changed) indicate which file the lines appear in.

The greater-than sign may be included with , while produces the greater-than or equal to sign.

URIs are delimited with less-than and greater-than signs used as angle brackets.

The greater-than sign is used to express the act (or intent) of rubbing noses, typically in an affectionate or playful manner, with the recipient of the text/instant message.

In terms of ambiguity, BNF's metanotation generates unnecessary complexity when quotation marks, apostrophes, less-than signs or greater-than signs come to serve as terminal symbols, which they often do.

That is, for example, in sites where you allow users to submit their own content, for example, you don't want to allow a user to submit a less-than sign or a greater-than sign because that allows you to bracket some keywords like an href, a link reference, or to invoke scripting or play other games.