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.The tournament schedule is set up… … Wikipedia
Bracket — 〈 redirects here. It is not to be confused with く, a Japanese kana. This article is about bracketing punctuation marks. For other uses, see Bracket (disambiguation). Due to technical restrictions, titles like :) redirect here. For typographical… … Wikipedia
First class constraint — In Hamiltonian mechanics, consider a symplectic manifold M with a smooth Hamiltonian over it (for field theories, M would be infinite dimensional). Poisson bracketsSuppose we have some constraints : f i(x)=0, for n smooth functions :{ f i } {i=… … Wikipedia
Bracket (mathematics) — In mathematics, various typographical forms of brackets are frequently used in mathematical notation such as parentheses ( ), square brackets [ ] , curly brackets { }, and angle brackets < >. In the typical use, a mathematical expression is… … Wikipedia
Bracket clock — A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. [cite web last = first = authorlink = coauthors = title = Bracket Clock work = Clocks and Watches, Encyclopedia of Antiques publisher = Old and Sold… … Wikipedia
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… … Wikipedia
First Boston — Infobox Company company | company name = The First Boston Corporation company type = Corporation foundation = 1933 location = New York City industry = Investment services products = Financial Services Investment Banking First Boston Corporation… … Wikipedia
bracket — {{11}}bracket (n.) 1570s, bragget, probably from M.Fr. braguette codpiece armor (16c.), from a fancied resemblance of that article to architectural supports (Spanish cognate bragueta meant both codpiece and bracket ), dim. of brague knee pants,… … Etymology dictionary
First Engineer Bridge — The First Engineer Bridge ( ru. Первый Инженерный мост, Pervy Inzhenerny most ) is one of several bridges that span the Moika River in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The bridge is one of a group of four bridges located near the Mars Field, and… … Wikipedia
bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf. [1890 95] * * * English spring driven pendulum clock, more properly known as a table clock or spring clock. The earliest of these clocks, made for a period after 1658, were of… … Universalium