Phrase Hound found 20 phrases and 3 compound words that contain brackets. The most common are listed below. Open brackets in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 20
- square bracketsplural of square bracket: Either 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.
- angle bracketsplural of angle bracket: Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
- corner bracketsplural of corner bracket: A bracket fixture shaped in a right angle.
- round bracketsplural of round bracket: Each of the signs ( and ); parenthesis, bracket (in a strict sense).
- tax bracketsplural of tax bracket: A range over which a piecewise linear, generally progressive, tax is linear.
- curly bracketsplural of curly bracket: Either { or }, having various uses in math, music, computer programming and chemistry.
- tortoise shell bracketsplural of tortoise shell bracket: Either of a pair of symbols,〔 〕, sometimes used in Japanese to enclose comments in quoted text.
- lenticular bracketsplural of lenticular bracket: Either of a pair of symbols,【 】, generally used in Chinese and Japanese dictionaries to enclose headwords, and sometimes for other purposes.
- banana bracketsplural of banana bracket: Either of the brackets (!| and |!), used in the notation for catamorphisms.
- bottom bracketsplural of bottom bracket: A bicycle part that connects the crankset (chainset) to the frame and allows the crankset to rotate freely.
- diamond bracketsplural of diamond bracket: Any of a number of angle-shaped brackets.
- gas bracketsplural of gas bracket: A usually curved pipe projecting from the wall of a room, used for illumination by gas.
- hair bracketsplural of hair bracket: A moulding which comes in at the back of, or runs aft from, the figurehead.
- income bracketsplural of income bracket: A range of income, used for demographic data, as well as to calculate taxes and benefits.
- left bracketsplural of left bracket: A left or open parenthesis ⟨(⟩.
- right bracketsplural of right bracket: The symbol ")".
- birch bracketsplural of birch bracket: A polypore mushroom that grows almost exclusively on birch trees, Piptoporus betulinus.
- Iverson bracketsplural of Iverson bracket: A 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)
- pointy bracketsplural of pointy bracket: angle bracket
- tortoiseshell bracketsplural of tortoiseshell bracket: Either of a pair of symbols,〔 〕, sometimes used in Japanese to enclose comments in quoted text.
Compound words 3
- autobracketsthird-person singular simple present indicative of autobracket: To use an autobracketing feature.
- multibracketsplural of multibracket: A 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 …
- superbracketsplural of superbracket: (mathematics)