Bracket

Quick meaning: Bracket is a noun meaning A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.

Meaning

A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
2. (military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
3. (sports) A diagram of games in a tournament.
4. (sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
5. One of several ranges of numbers.
6. (engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
7. Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “ ”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.

Example Sentences

tax bracket, age bracket

taxpayers in the $50,000 to $70,000 bracket

Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.

SIL got access to academic legitimacy; linguists bracketed the evangelical engine that drives SIL because they got access to data and tools.

Word Forms

• brackets
• bracketing
• bracketed

Synonyms for bracket

Depending on context, synonyms include parentheses, parens, benchmark, square bracket.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include square bracket, fixture, ferrule, fascia, clamp, scale.

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