bracketing

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

bracketing

1. present participle and gerund of bracket

Noun

bracketing (plural bracketings)

1. (architecture) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
2. The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.
3. (linguistics) A technique used to display the internal structure of a string of elements, in a similar manner to that used in mathematics and symbolic logic.

Derived terms

• autobracketing
• rebracketing

Anagrams

• tricken bag