Definitions for bracketing

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bracketing brack·et·ing

Spelling: [brak-i-ting]

IPA: /ˈbræk ɪ tɪŋ/

Bracketing is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 814 anagrams from letters in bracketing (abcegiknrt).

Definitions for bracketing

noun

1. a series of brackets.
2. framework for supporting a cove, cornice, plaster ceiling ornament, etc.
3. a support, as of metal or wood, projecting from a wall or the like to hold or bear the weight of a shelf, part of a cornice, etc.
4. a shelf or shelves so supported.
5. Also called square bracket. one of two marks [ or ] used in writing or printing to enclose parenthetical matter, interpolations, etc.
6. Mathematics. brackets, parentheses of various forms indicating that the enclosed quantity is to be treated as a unit. (loosely) vinculum (def 2). Informal. an expression or formula between a pair of brackets.
7. a grouping of people based on the amount of their income:
8. a class; grouping; classification:
9. Architecture. any horizontally projecting support for an overhanging weight, as a corbel, cantilever, or console. any of a series of fancifully shaped false consoles beneath an ornamental cornice.
10. (on a staircase) an ornamental piece filling the angle between a riser and its tread.
11. Shipbuilding. a flat plate, usually triangular with a flange on one edge, used to unite and reinforce the junction between two flat members or surfaces meeting at an angle. any member for reinforcing the angle between two members or surfaces.
12. a projecting fixture for gas or electricity.
13. Gunnery. range or elevation producing both shorts and overs on a target.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with or support by a bracket or brackets.
2. to place within brackets; couple with a brace.
3. to associate, mention, or class together:
4. Gunnery. to place (shots) both beyond and short of a target.
5. Photography. to take (additional shots) at exposure levels above and below the estimated correct exposure.

Origin of bracketing

First recorded in 1815-25; bracket + -ing¹

Examples for bracketing

Certainly, an English critic would never have thought of bracketing together such a pair.

Friedlaender, in bracketing Cumis, has not taken this sufficiently into consideration.

More followed, and, after bracketing, seemed to centre about two hundred and fifty yards in front of us.

A witty bishop once scandalized his hearers by bracketing Bradshaw with the Bible as an indispensable book.

Our guns added their help, and they fired many rounds down the Menin road, bracketing the ditches.

This bracketing of Hildas injury with hers stank in Katherines nostrils.

The process is very like what artillery men tell of "bracketing" the object fired at, and then landing fairly on it.

McGillicuddy had a way of bracketing the Deity with commanding officers, and did it with much simplicity and meant no irreverence.

This gallery is sometimes supported upon a deep system of bracketing, corbelled out from the feet of the main pillars.

The bracketing of the names of Shakespeare and Swedenborg is eminently well.