Phrase Hound found 36 phrases and 12 compound words that contain bracket. The most common are listed below. Open bracket in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 36
- tax bracketA range over which a piecewise linear, generally progressive, tax is linear.
- square bracketEither of a pair of symbols, [ ], used for various purposes, e.g. to enclose text inserted or replaced by an editor, and to indicate various mathematical operations.
- round bracketEach of the signs ( and ); parenthesis, bracket (in a strict sense).
- curly bracketEither { or }, having various uses in math, music, computer programming and chemistry.
- angle bracketAny of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
- bottom bracketA bicycle part that connects the crankset (chainset) to the frame and allows the crankset to rotate freely.
- Lie bracketThe commutation operation [a,b]=ab-ba.
- bracket fungusAny of various fungi of the family Polyporaceae, whose fruiting bodies form on trees and resemble shelves or brackets.
- birch bracketA polypore mushroom that grows almost exclusively on birch trees, Piptoporus betulinus.
- bracket creepThe move towards increased taxation when an inflation adjustment to a wage or salary pushes a taxpayer into a higher tax bracket (or, in a progressive taxation regime, further into a bracket).
- income bracketA range of income, used for demographic data, as well as to calculate taxes and benefits.
- left bracketA left or open parenthesis ⟨(⟩.
- right bracketThe symbol ")".
- lenticular bracketEither of a pair of symbols,【 】, generally used in Chinese and Japanese dictionaries to enclose headwords, and sometimes for other purposes.
- Iverson bracketA notation that denotes a number that is 1 if the condition in square brackets is satisfied, and 0 otherwise, i.e. (where P is a true or false statement)
- bracket clockA small pendulum clock mounted on a wall bracket to allow room for its hanging weight.
- bracket clocksplural of bracket clock: A small pendulum clock mounted on a wall bracket to allow room for its hanging weight.
- bracket racingA form of drag racing that allows for a handicap between the predicted elapsed time of the two cars over a standard distance.
- diamond bracketSynonym of angle bracket: Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
- gas bracketA usually curved pipe projecting from the wall of a room, used for illumination by gas.
- bracket busterAn American college basketball team that unexpectedly defeats a higher-ranked team in a tournament.
- bracket fungiplural of bracket fungus: Any of various fungi of the family Polyporaceae, whose fruiting bodies form on trees and resemble shelves or brackets.
- tortoise shell bracketEither of a pair of symbols,〔 〕, sometimes used in Japanese to enclose comments in quoted text.
- banana bracketEither of the brackets (!| and |!), used in the notation for catamorphisms.
- bracket raceAn individual race in bracket racing.
Compound words 12
- bracketyResembling or containing brackets (the typographical symbols).
- superbracket(mathematics)
- bracketlikeResembling or characteristic of a bracket.
- broketAn angle bracket: either of the symbols < and > when used as an enclosing pair.
- multibracketA partition of a set into disjoint subsets such that each subset contains an even number of elements, and that if those elements are ordered, they divide the subset into ranges (1st to 2nd element, 3rd to 4th element, and so on) such that …
- autobracketTo use an autobracketing feature.
- bracketerA program or algorithm that breaks down natural language into certain grammatical components.
- bracketlessWithout brackets (in various senses).
- bracketwiseIn terms of brackets (in various senses).
- unbracketTo remove from brackets or parentheses; to highlight; to bring forward.