noun / verb
bracket
A pair of boundaries enclosing a defined range.
Her salary falls within the highest tax bracket shown in the table.
Etymology
The French source names a projecting piece of clothing. The word passed to projecting supports and then to enclosing marks, from which the sense of a bounded range developed.
In context
we list all the members of the set separating them by commas and closing them by in curly bracket.
More examples
- Put the optional phrase in square brackets.
- The two estimates bracket the most likely cost.
- The photographer shoots an exposure bracket to capture both shadows and highlights.
Forms
bracket · brackets · bracketed · bracketing
Similar words
- range
- A range spans values; bracket emphasizes their enclosure or grouping within limits.