Bracket (disambiguation)
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Punctuation

  • Bracket
    Bracket
    Brackets are tall punctuation marks used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text. In the United States, "bracket" usually refers specifically to the "square" or "box" type.-List of types:...

    , one of a class of punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text
    • Square bracket, one type of punctuation bracket (primarily American usage)
    • Parenthesis, another type of punctuation bracket (primarily British usage)

Architecture and engineering

  • Bracket (architecture)
    Bracket (architecture)
    A bracket is an architectural member made of wood, stone, or metal that overhangs a wall to support or carry weight. It may also support a statue, the spring of an arch, a beam, or a shelf. Brackets are often in the form of scrolls, and can be carved, cast, or molded. They can be entirely...

     structure, often in the shape of an inverted "L" or triangle, set flat against a wall to support objects above
    • Corbel
      Corbel
      In architecture a corbel is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger". The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or...

       or decorative bracket, used in furniture and mantelpieces
  • Bracket (engineering), general term for an object used for support
    • Automotive bracket, various brackets used in automotive parts
    • Bottom bracket
      Bottom bracket
      The bottom bracket on a bicycle connects the crankset to the bicycle and allows the crankset to rotate freely. It contains a spindle that the crankset attaches to, and the bearings that allow the spindle and cranks to rotate. The chainrings and pedals attach to the cranks...

      , in bicycles
    • Blade bracket, in ceiling fans
    • Computer bracket, on expansion card
      Expansion card
      The expansion card in computing is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an expansion slot of a computer motherboard or backplane to add functionality to a computer system via the expansion bus.One edge of the expansion card holds the contacts that fit exactly into the slot...

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      • D-Bracket, in computer hardware
    • A component of dental braces

Sports

  • Bracket (tournament)
    Bracket (tournament)
    A bracket is a tree diagram that represents the series of games played during a tournament, named as such because it appears to be a large number of interconnected brackets....

    , a diagrammatic representation of the series of games played during a tournament
  • Bracket turn
    Bracket turn
    A bracket turn is a kind of one-foot turn in figure skating. The transition between edges during the turn is the same as for a three turn - for example, forward inside edge to back outside edge - but unlike a three turn, in which the cusp of the turn points into the curve of the arc on which it is...

    , a figure skating move

Entertainment

  • Bracket (band)
    Bracket (band)
    Bracket is an American punk rock band from Forestville, California, formed in 1992. The band has consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Marty Gregori, bassist Zack Charlos and drummer Ray Castro since its inception, with guitarist Angelo Celli replacing founding member Larry Tinney in 1999...

    , a pop punk band
  • "The Bracket
    The Bracket
    "The Bracket" is the 14th episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 58th overall. It originally aired on March 31, 2008.-Plot:...

    ", episode of television series How I Met Your Mother
    How I Met Your Mother
    How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...

  • (film)
    (film)
    is a 2003 silent film directed by Morgan Fisher. The film is shot entirely in close-ups, considering the "status of the insert shot in an ingenious way", according to film expert Susan Oxtoby....

    , a 2003 film directed by Morgan Fisher
  • (album) album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós

Mathematics and science

  • Bracket fungus
    Bracket fungus
    Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, among many groups of the fungi in the phylum Basidiomycota. Characteristically, they produce shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows...

    , fungi in in the phylum Basidiomycota
  • Bracket (mathematics), symbols used to specify the order of operations
  • Curly-bracket languages in programming
  • Lie bracket (disambiguation), multiple meanings
  • Poisson bracket
    Poisson bracket
    In mathematics and classical mechanics, the Poisson bracket is an important binary operation in Hamiltonian mechanics, playing a central role in Hamilton's equations of motion, which govern the time-evolution of a Hamiltonian dynamical system...

    , an operator used in mathematics and physics
  • Bra-ket notation
    Bra-ket notation
    Bra-ket notation is a standard notation for describing quantum states in the theory of quantum mechanics composed of angle brackets and vertical bars. It can also be used to denote abstract vectors and linear functionals in mathematics...

    , a notation for describing quantum states in the theory of quantum mechanics
  • Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket
    Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket
    In mathematics, the Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket is an extension of the Lie bracket of vector fields to vector-valued differential forms on a differentiable manifold...

  • Moyal bracket
    Moyal bracket
    In physics, the Moyal bracket is the suitably normalized antisymmetrization of the phase-space star product.The Moyal Bracket was developed in about 1940 by José Enrique Moyal, but Moyal only succeeded in publishing his work in 1949 after a lengthy dispute with Dirac...

  • Nijenhuis-Richardson bracket
  • Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket
    Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket
    In differential geometry, the Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket, also known as the Schouten bracket, is a type of graded Lie bracket defined on multivector fields on a smooth manifold extending the Lie bracket of vector fields. There are two different versions, both rather confusingly called by the same...


Other

  • Bracketing
    Bracketing
    In photography, bracketing is the general technique of taking several shots of the same subject using different or the same camera settings. Bracketing is useful and often recommended in situations that make it difficult to obtain a satisfactory image with a single shot, especially when a small...

    , the photographic technique of taking multiple shots of the same subject with different camera-settings
  • Bracketing (phenomenology)
    Bracketing (phenomenology)
    Bracketing is a term derived from Edmund Husserl for the act of suspending judgment about the natural world that precedes phenomenological analysis....

    , suspension of judgment as to the answer of a question, and proceed as if there were some answer
  • Age bracket

See also

  • Bracket buster
    Bracket buster
    Bracket buster, as a generic phrase, refers to an American college basketball team, usually from a so-called mid-major school, which upsets a highly-ranked team in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament....

  • Bracket clock
    Bracket clock
    A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term originated with small weight driven clocks that had to be mounted on a bracket on the wall to allow room for their hanging weights. When spring driven clocks were invented they continued to...

  • Up the Bracket
    Up the Bracket
    Up the Bracket is the debut album by British rock band The Libertines, released in October 2002. It reached #35 in the UK Albums Chart.The album was re-released on 8 September 2003 with an additional track, "What a Waster" and DVD featuring the promotional videos for the singles: "Up the Bracket",...

    , 2002 music album by The Libertines
  • Bracketing (disambiguation)
    Bracketing (disambiguation)
    Bracketing may refer to:* Bracketing, a photographic technique** Autobracketing* Bracketing , a term in morphological analysis* Bracketing , a method used by phenomenological sociologists...

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