Bracket (disambiguation)

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Bracket may refer to:

• Bracket, 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)
• Bracket (architecture) structure, often in the shape of an inverted "L" or triangle, set flat against a wall to support objects above
  • Corbel or decorative bracket, used in furniture and mantelpieces
• Bracket (tournament), a diagrammatic representation of the series of games played during a tournament
• Bracket (band), a pop punk band
• Bracket turn, a figure skating move
• Bracketing, the photographic technique of taking multiple shots of the same subject with different camera-settings
  • See Bracketing (disambiguation) for other meanings
• Tax bracket, for example, or "income bracket", "age bracket", "bracket of songs" - group of people or things sharing some characteristic
• ( ) (film), a 2003 film directed by Morgan Fisher
• ( ) (album) album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós
• A component of Dental Braces
• Bracket fungus, fungi in in the phylum Basidiomycota

In mathematics and physics

• Bracket (mathematics), symbols used to specify the order of operations.
• Lie bracket, a notation in mathematics for Lie algebras and tensor fields
• Poisson bracket, an operator used in mathematics and physics
• Bra-ket notation, a notation for describing quantum states in the theory of quantum mechanics
• Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket
• Nijenhuis-Richardson bracket
• Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket