bracketing

English

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